Lab introduction to Colab/Python, huggingface, Github, et al
Readings: qntm, There is no Antimemetics Division
Nadia Asparouhova, Antimemetics, Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading
Notes on Thinking Machine Imaginaries: Llull, Leibniz, and Love…Edward Bernays, Walter Lippmann, Propaganda, and Public Relations; The XX Committee, counterintelligence, ‘black propaganda’, and James Jesus Angleton’s “wilderness of mirrors”; early social engineering, parasociality and inducement, mis/di…
Adam Elkus
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Adam Elkus appears to be a theorist of information warfare, memetics, and cognitive security whose work bridges technical AI systems with propaganda and counterintelligence operations. He's invoked in the course materials to frame how ideas propagate (or resist propagating) through networks, connecting historical intelligence operations and psychological manipulation to contemporary concerns about AI-generated misinformation and memetic engineering. His thinking enables students to see the continuity between Cold War "wilderness of mirrors" tactics and present-day challenges of adversarial prompting, jailbreaking, and AI-assisted social engineering.
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