08 / November 9

Police and Thieves

“The generative model can be thought of as analogous to a team of counterfeiters, trying to produce fake currency and use it without detection, while the discriminative model is analogous to the police, trying to detect the counterfeit currency. Competition in this game drives both teams to improve their methods until the counterfeits are indistinguishable from the genuine articles.”
— Ian J. Goodfellow, et al.

Topics

GANs to advanced discriminative models, transformers, and diffusion models; Police and Thieves: SBF, FTX, effective altruism, effective accelerationism, Zizians, et al.; asymmetrical likewar: psyop to mindwar to likewar; hybrid war, asymmetry, and 4GW; Equation Group v. Shadow Brokers: DANDERSPIRITZ, EWOKFRENZY, WANNACRY; exfiltration doxware; Clearview AI, Mainstreet One/People First, Flock/Deflock; memetic warfare, Meta, X, social credit, affective computing, and pseudoPSI; autoasymmetry: the Inversion, bots, celeb followbots; reciprocal panopticism, one-way mirrors, walled gardens, hidden layers; arcana imperii, secretum, mysterium; capture and hidden layers in neural nets; walled gardens, encrypted comms; reciprocal panopticism: Reddit karma and sage, 4chan thread degradation, 8kun-Q and tripcodes; one-way mirrors: DARPA's Lifelog to Facebook, Instagram, Meta; social, political, and economic hidden layers: criminogenic banks, BCCI to In-Q-Tel to Farmington State Bank (Moonstone); Meta captology, BJ Fogg's persuasive computing, and capture

Readings 1

from Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do BJ Fogg

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 1

Generative Adversarial Nets Ian J. Goodfellow, et al.

Lab

Fool me only once shame on you, fool me into randomness great job

GANs, distillation