Find Covert Manipulation

Free but worth less.

"For the last quarter we have been testing the newly available automation. As expected, because it harvests more than the explicit instructions given it, the value improves with time. We are here to design the next level of testing. It has been suggested that we endeavor to train it to look for covert manipulation."

"Excuse me.", she put her hand on his arm to gently interrupt, "Would this be an opportunity to roll film?"

"You are right, this is exactly why we set it up. Everyone agree?" It was clear as soon as he said it that they indeed were in agreement.

This was essentially the beginning of the Gas Lights operation. Litchfield Park knew within hours. Singapore not far behind. The ambiguity of the concept central to its purpose.

"I smell a bestseller in the making.", she cracked a knowing smile.

"Amazing how much easier it is to sell a lot to one or a few than to many.", their sarcastic banter served to underscore the motive for the mission.

NOTE: Some of the foregoing in this BuzzTheHill post is not fictional. Consider it a public disclosure and as such, to the degree something novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art has been addressed, the specific intent was/is to put it in the PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Keyhole Beacon

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"This 'Laptop in the Round' collaboration configuration made for production qualities far beyond their previous expectations. The post production crew, genuinely pleased with the dailies that were not staged in any way.

"And when the first virtual seat was added, the collective visualization coalesced into the now legendary story."

There are sounds, sights even tactile sensations and smells that are associated with those magic moments when the soup first senses new value. These, as nearly as we are currently able to tell, cannot be managed into existence. The best we can hope for is to be able to record them when they spontaneously manifest.

Tapping the subtle channels comes with experience. He remembered a time entitled 'Wasting his life away' that may just have easily been entitled, 'why does he have to abuse me to create?'. That judgement, believe it or not, was well intentioned but based on misguided programming. Tragic that it serves the interests of certain oligarchs.

NOTE: Some of the foregoing in this BuzzTheHill post is not fictional. Consider it a public disclosure and as such, to the degree something novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art has been addressed, the specific intent was/is to put it in the PUBLIC DOMAIN

© 2011 Buzz Hill

For Those in the Know

"Vibrations from the beach, soundtrack of the revolution. At least that is what it sounds like from here."

Tar Sand Wise

Wisconsin labor-managment contest? How about cornering the energy market? Are there really mountains in Kansas, Mr Dylan sir? She might be tangled up in blue. But not the kind you first suspect.

RGWamsley sees the truth? Listen to your right.

If you are peering through a Wisconsin telescope backwards you will see thunder and a midwest twister that has a global and a bit creepy vibe. Easier to see from Chicago, just outside the bubble?

You do have to know what you are looking for: Think, Jasmine Revolution - North America.

Like Kansas, a first.

"We can get technical, though don't need to. As you look at this, think 'productive conversation'. This is the hoizontal or spherical blue plane to which we have been referring. It effectively counters the weaknesses of top-down command and control (vertical, red, gravity). Optimal is neither extreme, but where between the two?" Just as he pointed to the last graphic a system monitor notification signal interrupted.

She had been watching the machine display during the presentation and marveled how it seem to accompany his talk.  Rare that the machine would request attention during a time when its views were being summarized for the crew.

With a startled voice, the person explained his dilemma, "This is not what I saw earlier today. What happened? It doesn't seem fair."

"Things change. Get used to it." A matter-of-fact but respectful tone to her voice.

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World Order

"She doesn't know yet?"

"It depends on what you mean by know. Does she understand it? No. Does she understand the implications? Not really. Will she know where to look when the time comes for it to be applied? Yes.

Jobs?

"Let me give you a couple of metaphorical examples. The connotation for the term strategic; Is it just something the military does that can blow up the world, only do it first? Or: Polar - fierce no-holds-barred competition. Popular uses of certain terms lead the listener astray - sometimes by design."

Confused? Would you be upset if that was the intent? "Everybody does it." Actually, no. Amazing what some deep pockets will spend to get you to think the majority do.

Passive is a choice.

Engaged instead and want to be in the game rather than just watching? Loyalty to American Idol is NOT engagement, Prudence. A not-shallow conversation is more like it. Not to be confused with you repeating 'what we discuss in this fair and balanced broadcast'.

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Identity Threat Assessment

Sputnik as Decoy

"Outsourcing covert intelligence technology and/or services to a private entity(s) is risky in the extreme. When the general turned president warned us of this a half-century ago, little could he have known about the implications in a sometimes covertly-controlled connected world that we have today. Is the country's agency in charge of guarding against that possibility really able to do so? If not, how can we get there?"

Identities organize at or near the top in the machine. The integrity of the mechanism that supports this is essential as is its simplicity. Relying on documents alone, no matter how useful in the past, is simply not sufficient.

The integrity of certifiable trust profiles for each member is the life blood of this new organization. Constantly improving the carefully measured immune response to competition for this critical function acknowledges that other organizations can be, and often are, naturally predisposed to find weaknesses in the model.

'black holes' in the cloud are seen how?

NOTE: Some of the foregoing in this BuzzTheHill post is not fictional. Consider it a public disclosure and as such, to the degree something novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art has been addressed, the specific intent was/is to put it in the PUBLIC DOMAIN

© 2011 Buzz Hill

Technique's Rationale

"More than a few have railed against the who-less, where-less style, you know."

"With patience and calm comes understanding. After all, the personal pronouns refer to actual people most of the time. And perceptions of such folks otherwise. Same with locations, even when they are misnamed.

"One of the most important fundamentals of language is reusability. Abstractions are not just convenient but essential to communication."

Relative, right?

"But why do it? It can be such a turn-off."

"That is true for the casual reader, yes. It is intentional, though. As has been disclosed here in a variety of ways, robots and minions won't 'waste' much time - too deep, won't or can't understand."

"What about the typos, in placed editing and so forth?"

"Timeliness trumps precision in this case. We compensate for flaws by moving on multiple related fronts simultaneously.

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Social Darkness

Doerr Dinner

Black holes in the cloud. By definition they can't be 'seen'. But as Stephen Hawking says we can know what is inside by what can be observed from a black hole's event horizon.

You see, black holes in the cloud are inversely correlated with open and secure. What they depict from scrutiny of their event horizons is insecure and closed.

Back doors in the dark are not the same thing as back doors in unexpected places. At least in the sense that generally friendly people limit access by testing goodwill rather than through coerced loyalty.

"You are suggesting that the absence of data points on the map are the result of intentional cloaking?"

"I think it is worthwhile to investigate. There may be another explanation. One that has not occurred to our crew yet. Our internal code name for this research is Vegas."

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Emergent Landing

"… it is one circumstance that can expose a defector in place." Such environments that seem to spontaneously erupt from the soup have an emergent quality. The timing is not dictated by the planned completion of preparation but instead by a self-correcting just-in-time model whose execution is triggered by a related 'natural' but not precisely predicted or manufactured event."

Not according to plan OR ...

Least affected by gravity, liberty flies high. If the altitude is earned, the masses ascend in the wake of its wisdom. If liberty is stolen, it consumes its exploited foundation until the inevitable fall.

"And this, my friends, is where conversation comes in. Checks and balances thrive in interactivity. One might argue, they could not occur without sustained and related transactions that involve those who are or will be affected.

"Sequencing the spiraling and balanced exhanges for optimal ascent also sustains the desired rapport.", her hair danced to head motions as if to punctuate her verbal delivery.

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Make Believe

Throttling scarcity by controlling demand. Sounds a little suspect? Perception elasticity is larger than is generally acknowledged in many fields. There are some very notable choke points in society's extended perception. Very little energy is needed to adjust flow at such points.

Vector

Narrative implies flow.

"… art for frames."

"Why? That is just inappropriate."

"Troublemaker, this is why your kind needs to be managed.", Wamsley and Williams notwithstanding, this person was not the first person to suggest it.

As we talked about before, management is vertical (the gravity vector). This time, consider the horizontal plane as creativity. The strong suggestion is we have been too "heavy". We need to lighten up, collaborate, treat each other as being on the same plane.

Real But Hidden?

Gravity this close to the singularity is nothing to sneeze at. But it is optional in a grand scheme known as mind. Some would argue, embodied mind. It can be useful to look at it that way. I prefer for the purpose of practical reconciliation to consider, 'embodied reality'.

"Yesterday evening, we were downtown for a lecture that was an important variation on, as I prefer to view it, embodied reality. Its the part we can imagine that is, at least now, beyond what we can observe. The best questions came from those not yet encumbered with 'can't'." One was not even tall enough to reach the microphone without help. It seems a multiverse takes a very big imagination.

"Just a couple of days ago, one could interpret an impassioned pronouncement as essentially negating anything not observed as not having happened. I don't suspect it is what he really intended to assert but it seems to beg clarification."

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Strategic Calm

"It just works better for our definition of good guys and not so much for our definition of the bad guys."

"What is it we are talking about then?"

"Conversation as opposed to mass messaging. Because there is a biological precedent, some call it organic."

Deceptive

Walking the fine line to keep a selected few engaged while effectively deterring the vandals and being invisible to the 'bots' was getting easier. Watching the competition trying to cost-effectively infiltrate their cells was starting to be almost comical now. Co-opting the constructive methods of those who would use the capability for selfish purposes was particularly satisfying.

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