I have noticed everything you are talking about. Everything I do online, everything...it feels like...Operant Conditioning. By someone who knows me or at least knows more about my personal thoughts than I have ever divulged or even spoken irl, much less online. Hopes and Dreams type of shit. And they always use the same - yet laughably ineffective - negative reinforcement, ie the same attempts at insulting me.

Paranoid (<-- thinking my own chosen handle would psych me out)

Arrogant (<-- like poster earlier, and I AM arrogant. So much so, that I would never be affected by the whimsical opinions of someone I consider beneath me in intelligence. Sorry for being so arrogant, but it is one of my faults, and I try to work on it daily)

Hard-Liner, not everything is black/white, right/wrong, let's throw some abstract ethical and/or moral hade on some concrete logic and facts

Close but still incorrect

^^^last two are also attempts to make me doubt my intelligence

Not gonna work. They are trying to sow doubt, thinking that arrogance is truly an outward projection masking insecurities, but, really that very arrogance and assuredness is...the sign of an autistic anomaly. Nice try, Freud. Better luck next time, BF Skinner. Take your Operant Conditioning and shove it into Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs or Schroedinger's Box. Ain't nobody putting this Baby in a Box, Skinner.

I mean, I wasn't going to elaborate on this, until I saw the following:



What. In. The. Actual. Fuck. If they can do it to those guys, they can do it to us. And I think they are and more. It's research, and they may be using it to train an AI. I actually think that's what it is. What better way to train a quantum computer, acting as a human, than using actual humans, acting - via hivemind - as a quantum computer?

Nefarious or not? I dunno.