Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I’ll drop this old quote and hopefully explain why.
I believe too few people are aware of the extent, the breadth, and the depth of the advances which have been made in recent decades in the behavioral sciences...the increasing power for control which it give will be held by someone or some group; such an individual or group will surely choose the purposes or goals to be achieved; and most of us will then be increasingly controlled by means so subtle we will not even be aware of them as controls... it appears that some form of completely controlled society...is coming.
Carl Rogers. On Becoming a Person
I’m exhausted so forgive my ramble, Lost work so I’ll try to recreate something.
I’ve had a theory on brainwashing that could be used against us and it is so subtle that it would require a computer to decode what is be long suggested to to population. Much like having to build a computer that could send the German code in order to retrieve a message.
To understand how covert the suggestion could be... There was a experiment that went something like this. People were repeatedly shown a video of someone saying “Ba” then repeatedly shown someone saying “Ga”. When that was installed in the brain the subject was shown a video where he heard the person saying “Ba” but visually (lip reading) the person was saying “”Ga”. When asked, the subject said he heard “Da”.
If this method of suggestion is not already being used against us it surely will with the advancement of A.I. This may be a brand new battleground that can be influenced or exposed. Just pointing at the break in the wall. Not sure how to fix it.
That’s all for now