Man am I glad I don't go to this conference anymore.
There is something in psychology called the blue dot effect where people primed to find blue dots will start identifying purple and green as blue as well.
I attended because of the edgy non-corporate but otherwise technically interesting stuff. But over time I just couldn't stand how everything that is coated in the cheap veneer of the anarcho cypher punk rebellion is accepted without any critical thought.
People don't like hearing what I am saying because the same crowd frequents this site, but I find your delusional paranoid ideation a bigger attack on my sanity then whatever big tech is putting in my social media feed.
You like pointing your fingers at everyone else and accuse them of a big psyops, but guess what, this is what you are doing. Now go and do your worst.
I agree with you mostly, not a big fan of this talk, there are large leaps of inference, I failed to see actual data or concrete logic linking the few disjoint things he talked about back to the 2016 statement he started with.
OTOH at least it does remind people to be skeptical, and the risk
* There is motive. State actors historically had the motivation to do these kind of things and acted on it.
* It is achievable. Behavioral psychology works. I'd believe its use in at least commercial space is common knowledge nowadays. (Humans are very predictable at large scale.. I've seen the data personally)
* Generative AI makes it a lot easier, opens up new possibility of depth and scope
There's a will, there's a mean, it's very profitable.
Maybe DEFCON is better for you? They stick more with the hacking and less with the higher level culture or maybe consider HOPE for that old school phreaker vibe. (Assuming you can easily\cheaply make it to the US)
>There is something in psychology called the blue dot effect where people primed to find blue dots will start identifying purple and green as blue as well.
I am sure this is well-researched and reproducible, and generalizes to other concepts, like all the other biases "discovered" by academic researchers.
Glad you had the balls to say it, because just a few minutes in I was worried this kind of thinking was acceptable (at least here). What a load of deluded bollocks.
I see little difference between the conspiracy thinking coming out of the hacker community and that coming out of MAGA and QAnon communities. Vague sinister claims that those in power are pulling all the strings and executing some master plan to deceive everybody. Reality is a lot more boring, mundane, and complicated than that.
I don't follow the hacker scene much anymore, but when I did, I was a fan of talks by people like Moxie Marlinspike. Entertaining, technical, and just edgy enough without falling into cringe LARP/cosplay pretending to be Neo in the Matrix.
There is something in psychology called the blue dot effect where people primed to find blue dots will start identifying purple and green as blue as well.
I attended because of the edgy non-corporate but otherwise technically interesting stuff. But over time I just couldn't stand how everything that is coated in the cheap veneer of the anarcho cypher punk rebellion is accepted without any critical thought.
People don't like hearing what I am saying because the same crowd frequents this site, but I find your delusional paranoid ideation a bigger attack on my sanity then whatever big tech is putting in my social media feed.
You like pointing your fingers at everyone else and accuse them of a big psyops, but guess what, this is what you are doing. Now go and do your worst.