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I guess Snow Crash is out in the wild. Did he seem "normal" outside the covid stuff>

Diederich 6y ago
> I guess Snow Crash is out in the wild. I had to look this up, I presume this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash If you have a minute, can you please expand on your statement? It seems very interesting! > Did he seem "normal" outside the covid stuff We have yet to correspond extensively, but so far it's been pretty typical catching up after 25 years stuff, except as noted. I'm going to try to very carefully get some information about how he arrived at the conspiracy opinion.
- NikolaeVarius 6y ago
  Snow Crash refers to a virus, that in the book, only works on "hackers", since their brains understand code, and just need to see the raw bitmap of it for their brain to stop working. The book contains alot of analysis on the nature of information and how it spreads, and the methods in which you can literally re-program a person with language. I think its an apt analogy, your buddy is a programmer that has been exposed to Snow Crash, a virus of misinformation, and has shut down a part of his functioning. ====== "You're a hacker, that means you have deep structures to worry about, too." "Deep structures?" "Neurolinguistic pathways in your brain. Remember the first time you learned binary code?" "Sure." "You were forming pathways in your brain. Deep structures. Your nerves grow new connections as you use them - the axons split and pushed their way between the dividing glial cells - your bioware self-modifies - the software becomes a part of the hardware. So now you're vulnerable - all hackers are vulnerable - to a nam-shub. We have to look out for each other." "What's a nam-shub? Why am I vulnerable to it?" "Just don't stare into any bitmaps..."
  - Diederich 6y ago
    Thanks, I added that book to my list. (:
djsumdog 6y ago
I think it is, but the real virus is the Media and Big Tech. The Ministry of Truth in 1984 was government, but the version we see today is Big Tech + Big Media, backed by the political party that is encouraging the censoring and labeling of information they don't like. You assume the nam-shub are the conspiracies, but what if it's what MSNBC/FOX/CNN are pumping into your brain?

> I guess Snow Crash is out in the wild. I had to look this up, I presume this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash If you have a minute, can you please expand on your statement? It seems very interesting! > Did he seem "normal" outside the covid stuff We have yet to correspond extensively, but so far it's been pretty typical catching up after 25 years stuff, except as noted. I'm going to try to very carefully get some information about how he arrived at the conspiracy opinion.

NikolaeVarius 6y ago
Snow Crash refers to a virus, that in the book, only works on "hackers", since their brains understand code, and just need to see the raw bitmap of it for their brain to stop working. The book contains alot of analysis on the nature of information and how it spreads, and the methods in which you can literally re-program a person with language. I think its an apt analogy, your buddy is a programmer that has been exposed to Snow Crash, a virus of misinformation, and has shut down a part of his functioning. ====== "You're a hacker, that means you have deep structures to worry about, too." "Deep structures?" "Neurolinguistic pathways in your brain. Remember the first time you learned binary code?" "Sure." "You were forming pathways in your brain. Deep structures. Your nerves grow new connections as you use them - the axons split and pushed their way between the dividing glial cells - your bioware self-modifies - the software becomes a part of the hardware. So now you're vulnerable - all hackers are vulnerable - to a nam-shub. We have to look out for each other." "What's a nam-shub? Why am I vulnerable to it?" "Just don't stare into any bitmaps..."
- Diederich 6y ago
  Thanks, I added that book to my list. (:

djsumdog 6y ago

I think it is, but the real virus is the Media and Big Tech. The Ministry of Truth in 1984 was government, but the version we see today is Big Tech + Big Media, backed by the political party that is encouraging the censoring and labeling of information they don't like. You assume the nam-shub are the conspiracies, but what if it's what MSNBC/FOX/CNN are pumping into your brain?