More Friends Than You Know

"… in the process, diluting the competition's intended manipulative effect. When the solvent is coming from so many directions at once, one does not know what holes to plug when. In fact, it is futile to try since there are not sufficient numbers of troops to adapt to so many unique competitors."

"So the secret then is easy mass access to the light?"

"I am starting to like how it sounds. The connections provide the visible radiant energy. Street lights deter crime in the absence of daylight. And, too, the presence of eyes loyal to those who might suffer if the activity were to continue unabated."

It has taken awhile to reverse engineer the competition's major tool. A sophisticated network of obfuscation evidence of it priority for the perpetrators. The longer and more difficult to traceback the better from their perspective. As the light leaks in from every corner the deception tool's effectiveness fades.

"Superman's vulnerability, Kryptonite. The Deception Machine's? The light of friendly conversation. If you can't be with a friend you love, use the net."

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Memorial Debrief

Voice of Agression

- Unilateral control through declaring, 'need space'.

- Weak linking, "…that means: "

- Manipulative attribution, "I do this bad thing because you …"

- Deep Denial, "I don't do that which you said I just did …"

- Private conversations to support multiple deceptions.

- (Actually, 'no' means I don't want to listen to your question not 'no' to your question.)

The best memorial to the fallen ever, we no longer want to afford war.

"What does Arab Spring mean to you? How about Jasmine Revolution?", she asked rhetorically.

"Why should destruction of life and the earth define leadership in the age of engaged humanity?", he said to no one there.

Soon they all joined in. Each question answered the ones before. The night rolled on and the celebration  continued. To work in the morning, batteries recharged.

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Play Dead

"Does it mean that the Age of the Deceptive Meme may be about to fade into history?"

"More likely than not if we have accurately scoped the problem."

Not this but ...

That qualification was a tricky one, though. Identifying and weighting the factors involved based on a lot of assumptions. The peripheral benefits turned out to be a treasure trove of new analytical methods. The 'handle as bias' obfuscation, a good example.

Of the three major visualization transforms (zoom, rotation, translation) the recent focus was on a hybrid of the first two after spatial feature extraction. Granularity of the workforce, high. Efficacy of the hierarchical structure, unknown.

Draw attention away from the giant project needing public approval that serves narrow private interests. Who hold's the keys? The democracy's appropriate agency (State Dept.) and its chief executive.

"The chess match continues. The real-time component, the current position of the pieces on the board paces the effort ..."

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Grassroots Illusion

Value of Profile

"Florida chain email. Lots of content. Religious cover. Suggests significant funding. Widely dispersed low-level internet vandals."

"It is fair to say that the corner could be turned shortly on this Deception Machine tactic. The key is people working from home or coffee shops who are compensated appropriately for the value they add by cleaning up the online mess. Room for advancement. Those showing skills to adapt to the changing threat promoted."

Who will first step up to the plate? The opportunity is explicit. The data in this log and elsewhere documents the plan, those who have an interest in seeing it implemented and a way for risk takers to be compensated fairly. What's not to like?

"I suspect we will be getting feedback over the usual channels soon. Those who expect a return for passive ownership (deadbeat shareholders) will likely not be interested. Those who believe in future value generation and positive cash flow from inception will find a lot to like here."

"Nice work, feel free to take the rest of the day off.", she was kidding of course. They both chuckled.

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Context Domain

One Step Removed

"Images and links (both incoming and outgoing.) What can we conclude, if anything, from this confirmation? I am inclined to see connection from a slightly different perspective."

"In a world where filtering is far less useful to keep dialog channels open, hierarchy and the building of such is best reconsidered."

There are many ways to ask, of course. Indirect, may be best. Avoiding hair trigger afflictive emotions.
The kinds of conversations that can be overheard may not sufficiently express what the communication accomplished.

I know what she meant in one sense. That something was bothering her. But as I learned shortly thereafter, it was not what I suspected. Could it be that she recognized that I was perplexed and openly expressed just what it was without consciously intending to do so? Worth investigation I suspect.

"Conversation types, as we know, are not limited to one-on-one."

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Do you care?

"Its a simple question, really. It does not require a detailed answer. Know the context and reply with a value. A transaction of this type can be the beginning of a productive conversation."

"And reciprocation makes sense too. It would be nice to know that all parties to a conversation are interested in it being productive. Otherwise, what would be the point?"

Engagement as Deception Machine antidote. Those with a vested interest in perpetuating deception know that rapport amongst the deceived threatens the methodology.

Our old friend imagination comes into play. When perpetrators, not having enough detail about the interaction of the deception subjects, the mind plays tricks. Further, they often assume the deceived will deceive too, in response. Not all do.

"What if it was secretly orchestrated by two leaders acutely aware of manipulators at their respective homes?"

"I see what you mean.  How would we test that?"

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Profitable Deception Machine

Restoration Due

In an effective representative democracy, there is a free flow of accurate information throughout the governed land and among its inhabitants. Further, the data is easily accessible to the voters and there are mechanisms in place to assure the loyalty of representatives to the voters.

With sufficient resources, an enterprise can manipulate and distort the relevant information such that this form of government is no longer effective at serving all its constituents. Further, money can bribe the elected officials under the cover of the voter's then distorted perceptions. Presumably this is done for the benefit of a few to the exclusion of others.

With sufficient conversation enhancing technology, the deleterious effects of the said manipulation can be offset by the voters and the government working in concert. There is persistent market for serving the vast majority. Responding to that market in a timely fashion is far more efficient than the alternative (from the perspective of the whole.)

"A big part of the deception is a largely non-existent benefit to the population in general that is made to appear that way by the Deception Machine. This is quite a bit beyond transparent mistruths."

"Yes. We are fortunate that there are new ways to discover and expose these exploitive techniques."

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Managed Fervor

Trusting friends IS better.

"Would you have me not call out a few who have hurt so many to make your social life easier?"

The ensuing pause, in stark contrast to the rapid responses earlier in the exchange. The signal that the robotic routine had been successfully interrupted.

How different, from interaction amongst friends about non-controversial issues. And what about one or more parties to the conversation not even being aware of a carefully hidden bias chain.

"I asked if she cared. She look startled at the question and then assured me carefully that she did."

"Then I thought to myself that someone had 'gone to bat' for me recently without even knowing how it would be perceived by people persuaded to doubt good intentions that were in conflict with their own assumptions."

Productive conversations can have twists and turns, moments of doubt and dissonance. They often do. The courage to forge ahead and mutual respect born of authentic bonds usually win the day, though.

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Cycle Time

"How is it related?"

Karachakra

"I saw this on a Facebook post, 'All are frequencies and wavelengths, vibrations of the cyclic continuum. Duration is how they appear to those that suffer and need not. Thank you, your holiness.' It makes reference to a mathematical transformation that has been very useful in a variety of successful technologies."

"When many frequencie's falling edges synchronize, a step function down occurs. In context, a 'death' occurs. Just as in the rising case, a 'birth' occurs. One could then view an average 'lifetime' as a nominal bandwidth. To quantitatively analyze one needs to window in the time domain?"

An advantage to conceptualizing with ones current understanding is to venture into a sometimes highly productive realm that may not at all be like what one expected. They were fond of the label, emergent. And this discussion was about intended emergence.

... and when the bubble ends?

"Enough with the generalities. We are now aware of the energies at our disposal. We know their frequencies (inverse of wavelengths) and relative phase. Pick an acceptable time window in the future and predict when it is opportune to harvest the synchrony for the desired effect.

"Our egos are slaves to the time domain because existence pivots on a special time known as now. Our greater self is not so constrained. Our greater selves, even less ..."

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A Book's Cover

Backyard Spy?

"Images bring folks in. Google just like Facebook. Traffic of the recognition kind? Worth exploring, I suspect."

"No doubt, if true it fills in a missing piece.

"At first glance the correlation of general visits to image search visits appears high. All the markers of a hidden pattern (probably unnamed, as before). Cult following and cloaking are related? Just thinking out loud."

They looked at each other. Who would volunteer to go on the undercover mission? What were the risks? A false identity would be required if it was one of them. Switching from open to covert is not just distasteful, it is difficult. Further, the intelligence on the competition's 'store fronts' revealed that their means of detecting adversaries was highly developed.

The success of testing for the backyard spy was a matter of asking a certain kind of question using an unconventional method. Building a network to create such ever-changing questions, prudent.

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