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Moriarty's avatar

The reasons I have been forever postponing writing about Cognitive Warfare are the following.

1 - Breaking a promise I made to myself (I seldom break any promises, it is a character trait I have since I was a small kid)

2 - Because anyone can weaponize what I write, especially in this specific field, even if I am absurdly abstract, it takes very little manpower to weaponize it, outrageous faster now with AI and Large Language Models

3 - If properly applied to your own daily life and daily behavior, becoming a unconscious habit, it will effectively SUCK THE FUN out of everything lol.

Tangentially related to all these subjects (psychology, cognition, AI) I highly recommend anyone interest in dystopic AI-based future to watch the japanese animation Psycho Pass, first season. You will not regret it.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I feel somewhat disheartened by the information in this post. I should read before bed. : (

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Moriarty's avatar

It is more aimed at awareness and "enlightenment" rather than negatively affecting anyone. But it is something I must write about, because it is the next "battlefield". Arguably has been for years now, just scaling up.

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cat's avatar

It seems that as the government has gotten more brazen in its censorship and gaslighting measures, its lack of success has resulted in more aggressively controlling what people say and think. And yet this tightening hold backfires with many of us squiggling free.

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Moriarty's avatar

That has always been the case, now they just have better tools to do it at societal scale and attempt to "engineer" the world they want.

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Jim H's avatar

Exactly Cat.. but at the same time the brazen censorship and gaslighting further widens the gulf between those of us awake to it, and our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, and children who are not. So even in losing, "they" seem to be winning... or something like that.

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Linda's avatar

In the immortal words of Fox Mulder: "Trust No one " and my corollary, "Question Everything "

“No one, no government agency, has jurisdiction over the truth.”

— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: Fallen Angel

But it won’t stop them from trying.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I get it and I appreciate everything you do. It’s just relentless. Of course it is better to be enlightened and prepared. Thank you. I have passed your latest Alzheimer post onto several other folks

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Moriarty's avatar

Thank you, and I am working on how to remediate the precise mechanisms and damage in that substack, will probably publish it tomorrow, that one is a better read since it has "answer" and possible solutions rather than just the nasty side of things.

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Soujourner's avatar

This was happening to me. The relentlessness. I've learned to pause & pull away for a few days at a time from ALL forms of media. I've come up with my own pattern of escape which I won't bore you with the details. I will say, I am preparing for serious psychological warfare and the different mechanisms of control they will use to force me into a prison of control. There is much to do. Lockdowns will be child's play compared to what is coming. Physically, spiritually, emotionally...it will come where I am weakest so I force myself to work on these specifically. We know who are friends are now, that also helps. Plan on no internet.

Ephesians 6:10-20 is an excellent metaphor

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Moriarty's avatar

One of the reasons I sometimes take a little longer to write is not for lack of things to write about, but attempting to map out the frequency in each most of my subscribers consume (actually are bombarded with) information. Most people should follow your example, I myself started giving myself breaks because I was burning myself out.

They are losing control of the tools they were developing to enact such changes and cognitive war and attempt to destroy and control people at every level, so now we are entering a "no man's land", a place of true freedom.

I am optimistic for the future because of the many possibilities, but it won't be without pain and sacrifice.

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InfoHog's avatar

The chosen expression of "prebunking" is interesting, though. Kind of revealing, unintentionally. I'm not a native English speaker, but pre-bunking would seam to mean, installing bunk = nonsense, preemptively, into people's heads...

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NJ Election Advisor's avatar

Gaslighting

Information warfare from brainwashed, godless cultists

These people are dangerous extremists of the worst sort, beyond hubris

How did humanity take such a wrong turn?

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Moriarty's avatar

I think they have been always present among our midst, it is just that with the internet, and the flow of information at a unfathomable pace, some of it see the light of day, some doesn't. Evil has always been present in many ways.

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NJ Election Advisor's avatar

Truth.

Is it more widespread now? Or just a bigger soapbox with the internet?

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Dr. Hubris's avatar

"The role of psychological warfare in the battle for Ukraine" from Johns Hopkins...

Charming - I am sure... were they not the ones involved in the Event 201? But I am sure that this time we can 100% trust what the say! After all, CAPS went platinum almost immediately!

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Moriarty's avatar

John Hopkins is involved in a lot of... shady things, also a breeding ground for potential hires for Intelligence services (aka spy recruitment), so they will have links to a lot of the projects, simulations we uncovered in 2020.

The fields mentioned in this substack all are huge money makers too, even if they bear no fruits.

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pandelis's avatar

these people have written the book in deception ... they dont need mahoney's of this world, these are simply hired mercenaries ...

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Moriarty's avatar

Fields of study evolve, entire new fields were born since the early 2000's, so yeah, they need to innovate, the internet changed things.

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Soujourner's avatar

internet got out of control for them...soon we will need a license, we'll need find different ways to find each other. any thoughts ?

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Moriarty's avatar

I think they will fake a massive crash (cyber pandemic per the disgusting WEF) and imply it caused so much damage, the structure needs to be reworked, and they will section off and create dozens of intra-nets, rather than one bit inter-net.

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Angela's avatar

How do you counter perjoratives like "anti- vaxxer" or "conspiracy theorist"? These words get thrown out and ppls minds just go dead. It's an incredibly effective tactic and one that needs an equally effective counter?

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jean's avatar

Sticks and stones. But then words can also kill.

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InfoHog's avatar

"New research"? Isn't that just plain old "rules for radicals" or Sun Tse, related to "their" standard tactic of accusing the enemy that which you are guilty of? It seems like the same psych principle.

People are primed to view something in a certain way, and when they encounter the real thing, they are not receptive anymore to viewing it as it is, because they can't get the image of the strawman out of their heads.

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Moriarty's avatar

Rules for radicals is merely political meandering. This is a new field of research and study with palpable and appliable tactics, it goes beyond using heavily politicized sects of the population to apply pressure for long-term change.

Using the right strategy and tools, you can enact massive, societal scale changes at an alarming speed (weeks if you do it properly). The ramifications of the changes are astounding too.

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Potatodots's avatar

Ohhh boy.

This will be interesting! Thank you for digging in.

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Macrobius's avatar

I do wonder if what you are 'getting at' is that in the past (the aughties say) 'Memetic Warfare' programmes had a component to create a virus (given that viruses often affect the brain), as a bioweapon to aid and abet IOW / Cognitive Warfare as I guess we now call it, by rendering whole populations less prone to 'religious extremism'.

A decade or so onwards now, one could imagine, in a predictive and pre-suasive sort of way, a trinity of AI, behavioural psychology, and biowarefare aiming at creating compliant and 'socially constructive' populations. The first two fields use Reinforcement Learning (RL), which is what the kids call the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman theorem.

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Moriarty's avatar

You mean the one where they wanted to basically wipe out a gene from the entire of the Middle East to theoretically fix jihadism ? No, that is not what I am getting at, what I am implying is inside the substack linked in the piece (the one talking about Twitter), you may also use the search feature and search for "The Future of War" which is more in line with what I have been hinting here, and there.

Synthetic biology is just a very small part of Cognitive Warfare, you may look James Giodarno on YouTube for a broader field on the field (great resource too btw).

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Macrobius's avatar

Thank you so much for your guidance.

I was indeed thinking of this old presentation (be patient and allow time to download since it is 152pp) https://www.docdroid.net/3QEoyME/presentation-military-memetics-tutorial-13-dec-11-pdf

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Potatodots's avatar

I like "pre-suasion."

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