OmarShehata

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Psyop Report #2 – Putting Fluoride in the Mental Waters(psyop.report)
2 points by OmarShehata 2mo ago|0 comments
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by OmarShehata 9mo ago
I think this is the natural process , but how you implement it doesn't matter. A lot of GitHub repos use "unlabelled issue" === "a discussion thread". The benefit is that instead of having to search two separate
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Ask HN: Why can't computers copy GIFs at OS level?
1 points by OmarShehata 9mo ago|1 comments
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What does the ideal information environment look like?(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
1 points by OmarShehata 11mo ago|0 comments
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Streisand Deflect (a counter to streisand effect)(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
3 points by OmarShehata 11mo ago|0 comments
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Which world do you live in? (Israel / Palestine)(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
2 points by OmarShehata 1y ago|0 comments
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by OmarShehata 1y ago
this isn't a "it depends on what computation happens in this specific case" question, this is a "how does human cognition work". Every website you visit has the payload delivered over the network before any JS is pa
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by OmarShehata 1y ago
The first thing that happened in your mind when you read that sentence is (1) a bad feeling. That then triggered (2) a rational, conscious thought that interpreted that bad feeling: "this feels bad because it's not true, here are
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Rate Me: A/B/U(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
1 points by OmarShehata 1y ago|1 comments
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by OmarShehata 1y ago
> The last thing we need is a formal framework of how to have organic discussions. this is no different from best practices for programming though. People take a rule that generally works well, but a manager who doesn't understand i
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by OmarShehata 1y ago
I don't think that's necessarily true, I think it's about curation, not volume. The largest open source projects in the world have enormous inbound volume but extremely high quality discussion because of curation (I'm th
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by OmarShehata 1y ago
memes are not "on the side of reality". memes are on the side of whatever resonates. What resonates is what aligns to your model of reality (which is shaped by the ideology you're inside). There's no clear distinction
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by OmarShehata 1y ago
important notes from the essay, this not unique to twitter: > And if you think this only happens on one social network, you’re already caught in the wrong attention loop. > The most effective influence doesn’t announce itself. It does
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by OmarShehata 1y ago
> The line is clear: is money being exchanged in order to promote a product? That's advertising. this is obviously not a clear line. No money is exchanged when I promote my own product through my own channels, nor when I promote m
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New York Times Explains Psyops (Hollywood smear campaign)(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
3 points by OmarShehata 1y ago|0 comments
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Szilard's Engine – Powered by Knowledge(quantumcomplexity.org)
3 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments
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Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have customer data(theverge.com)
56 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|9 comments
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Conciousness May Be Retrocausal(popularmechanics.com)
13 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|2 comments
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Meta's non-invasive brain to words AI decoding has 80% accuracy(ai.meta.com)
2 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|2 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
this is the pattern: - humans find useful concept X - they describe it with label Y - it's genuinely useful, it spreads - It gets too big, Y is misunderstood and corrupted - New group of humans rediscovers concept X, gives it label Z T
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
you're both correct. All humans have a hardware component, an ideology acts as an attractor. Humans finding connection with other humans like them is one of the strongest pulls for a human mind. It has great power to amplify & grow
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Open Source Executive Order Tracker(theexecutiveordertracker.com)
5 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|2 comments
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People Are Delusional About How Hot They Are (Statistical Survey Results)(aella.substack.com)
3 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|1 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> Current results have shown that our model can accurately predict the brain states up to 5.04s with the previous 21.6s. Furthermore, even though the prediction error accumulates for the prediction of a longer time period, the gen-erated
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Anatomy of an Internet Argument #5: "Your writing is dumb"(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
1 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments
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A Beginner's Guide to Memetics(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
6 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
the interesting part is the ramifications of propaganda on the justice system. This is a very concrete example of how you can interfere with the rule of law if you can sway public opinion enough on an issue (this is true regardless of wheth
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
Very cool! I've been playing around with exporting my twitter archive & visualizing it/finding semantic clusters/changes in my beliefs over time etc. There's a couple initiatives of people making their personal data
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> but how many positive from improved health insurance policies? Probably thousands how did you come to this conclusion? what if it actually gets _worse_? What if the media attention blows over, the good or neutral actors end up eating t
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Luigi Mangione Storyline, open source mdbook(github.com)
3 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments

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