This might have been the post that gave me this idea. I remember being shocked and skeptical when I first saw the claim being made.
To me, Yang's claim is extraordinary and doesn't make sense in a few different ways. The attack I warn about in this post will (I think) be:
1) coordinated: stemming from multiple accounts at a similar time, possibly including news outlet/s that have built trust in the community but is funded by an adversary (MTS?)
2) Warning signs of information being false for a true memetic attack will feel much weaker than Yang's claim, you will have a harder time spotting them. However the pull the share the information will be just as strong as the pull I originally felt to share Yang's claim. I imaging myself thinking something like: "omg, another warning shot! And no lives were taken, no harm caused to a creature. Excellent! This evidence makes our claims stronger!"
Still, I think the Yang thing is a good example that fits partly into the type of Twitter post I would expect to see.
Addendum: A friend on twitter also points out that, likely the people who see this and my twitter post are not the ones who need warning about an attack like this. Probably the attack focuses on the movement broadly. For example, it'd really be bad if policy makers attempting to regulate ASI were seen reposting the misinformation. Though, if I were running an attack of this sort, I'd really be hoping catch some big fish too (Nate, Eliezer, Daniel, Jacob, Jeffery, etc).
This might have been the post that gave me this idea. I remember being shocked and skeptical when I first saw the claim being made.
To me, Yang's claim is extraordinary and doesn't make sense in a few different ways. The attack I warn about in this post will (I think) be:
1) coordinated: stemming from multiple accounts at a similar time, possibly including news outlet/s that have built trust in the community but is funded by an adversary (MTS?)
2) Warning signs of information being false for a true memetic attack will feel much weaker than Yang's claim, you will have a harder time spotting them. However the pull the share the information will be just as strong as the pull I originally felt to share Yang's claim. I imaging myself thinking something like: "omg, another warning shot! And no lives were taken, no harm caused to a creature. Excellent! This evidence makes our claims stronger!"
Still, I think the Yang thing is a good example that fits partly into the type of Twitter post I would expect to see.
Addendum: A friend on twitter also points out that, likely the people who see this and my twitter post are not the ones who need warning about an attack like this. Probably the attack focuses on the movement broadly. For example, it'd really be bad if policy makers attempting to regulate ASI were seen reposting the misinformation. Though, if I were running an attack of this sort, I'd really be hoping catch some big fish too (Nate, Eliezer, Daniel, Jacob, Jeffery, etc).