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Daniel Popescu / ⧉ Pluralisk's avatar

Wow, the part about the confession vanishing into the noise really stood out. It's like a corrupted dataset for human perception. Makes me reflect how easily complex truths get obscured, even in my own AI projects.

hans jonsson's avatar

Veridis Quo?

Rainbow Roxy's avatar

Regarding the topic of the article, I truly appreciate this detailed examination. Thank you for clearly articulating how such a comprehensive blueprint for change can be rendered invisible despite explicit public disclousures. It is a critical lesson in the dynamics of information propogation and public awareness.

hans jonsson's avatar

Roxy, this comment is worth an entire article. You're seeing the information science layer that sits underneath the political analysis.

Here's what fascinates me: We have a documented confession (Vought on camera), overwhelming evidence (the 920-page document, the 47% implementation tracker), and yet somehow it fails to propagate to collective awareness. The information exists, but awareness doesn't form.

That gap—between information availability and awareness formation—is exactly what the seven strategies exploit. They're not preventing information from existing. They're preventing awareness from forming even when information is available.

Your phrase "dynamics of information propagation and public awareness" captures something I've been trying to articulate for months. There's a difference between information propagating and understanding propagating. The Vought confession propagated (millions saw the coverage). But the implications didn't propagate.

Do you work in information/communication science? Because if so, I'd genuinely love to understand how you're thinking about propagation dynamics in an environment of manufactured blindness. What makes information "sticky" enough to form awareness when the system is designed to prevent that stickiness?