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I can see this as a psyops strategy by adverse actors: provide enough time-wasting entertainment to drain away the creativity of a nation.
by xattt 5y ago
I can see this as a psyops strategy by adverse actors: provide enough time-wasting entertainment to drain away the creativity of a nation.
- ale42 5y ago"This" as the ancient-easter-egg-finding, or as spending days on youtube?
- dotancohen 5y agoStrategic offensive nerd-sniping.
- dcl 5y agoAccording to the wiki article on multi-armed bandits, apparently the Allies contemplated this in WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit#Empirical_motivation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit#Empirical_m... > Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that, according to Peter Whittle, the problem was proposed to be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it.[13] [13] Whittle, Peter (1979), "Discussion of Dr Gittins' paper", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 41 (2): 148–177, doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1979.tb01069.x
- dotancohen 5y agoThat's right out of Monty Python. The war effort was incredibly diverse.
- sydthrowaway 5y agoChina + TikTok for sure.