Wish I could source it but there was an AI talk posted on HN where the speaker was a luminary and he said something along the lines of, "language is a tool or i

Wish I could source it but there was an AI talk posted on HN where the speaker was a luminary and he said something along the lines of, "language is a tool or instrument for acting on, or operating through other minds." This really stuck with me, as I've been mulling the possibility of hypnotic bots ever since. Typically I avoid hypotism as a topic as it's kind of creepy, but as an amateur synth musician, things like Max Richter's "Sleep," which uses binaural beats both from synths and as the effect of classical instruments, and just recently discovering Wagner's apparent use of similar intentional harmonic and interference effects (e.g. the das rheingold prelude on headphones, depending on conductor), and remembering Spiritualized's early "laser guided melodies," and "pure phase" albums - I'd suspect we may be closer than expected to codifying hypnosis through some novel discovery, possibly into something automated. Using white noise generator apps for babies is apparently a huge thing now, but what really caught my attention was the option of using pink noise (1/f) in these systems for putting kids to sleep, as it's essentialy fractal noise. I've generated some 1/f music (using a fractal sequencer), and it can be uncannily close to what a person might compose, which is to suggest that if hypnosis is really a thing, and it is related to concepts like pink noise, binaural beats, and harmonic content, there may be algorithmic approaches to it, and therefore a machine to do it at scale. (There is however another theory, which states this has already happened.)