You are right to say that the goal is exhaustion, not persuasion. One thing I wish to draw your attention to: generative AI doesn't just industrialize the distribution of contradictory narratives; it industrializes production as well. The cost of flooding an information space with plausible, mutually exclusive stories has dropped to near-zero.
Since starting on Substack I have had content “liked” by many faux accounts. It’s not just the Kremlin but their nationalist proxy’s across Europe who engage with this playbook. It’s almost as though they mirror something they see in your content before they try and take you down a rabbit hole to the land of smoke and mirrors. Et Specula Fume - great article
I lived in Moscow in 1990, just before the Soviet then Russian government implemented “shock therapy“ to address the problem of state ownership of everything. All government factories and industries were “privatized,“ which meant they were sold in private auctions for a penny on the dollar, which is how Russia became controlled by billionaire oligarchs. Who advised the government on Shock therapy? None other than Jeffrey Sachs, who left his fingerprints on the creation of one of the most corrupt state Enterprises in history. I wouldn’t believo him if he said that Russia was East of Poland and North of China.
You are right to say that the goal is exhaustion, not persuasion. One thing I wish to draw your attention to: generative AI doesn't just industrialize the distribution of contradictory narratives; it industrializes production as well. The cost of flooding an information space with plausible, mutually exclusive stories has dropped to near-zero.
Very good point
But if one looks at Chomsky or Mearsheimer (don't know Sachs), their preexisting worldviews make it unlikely that they'd see the issue any other way.
Since starting on Substack I have had content “liked” by many faux accounts. It’s not just the Kremlin but their nationalist proxy’s across Europe who engage with this playbook. It’s almost as though they mirror something they see in your content before they try and take you down a rabbit hole to the land of smoke and mirrors. Et Specula Fume - great article
I lived in Moscow in 1990, just before the Soviet then Russian government implemented “shock therapy“ to address the problem of state ownership of everything. All government factories and industries were “privatized,“ which meant they were sold in private auctions for a penny on the dollar, which is how Russia became controlled by billionaire oligarchs. Who advised the government on Shock therapy? None other than Jeffrey Sachs, who left his fingerprints on the creation of one of the most corrupt state Enterprises in history. I wouldn’t believo him if he said that Russia was East of Poland and North of China.