Eric Czuleger

I do, yeah. Really? You know, currently open to networking.

I do, yeah. Really? You know, currently open to networking.

No, no. Okay. Not usually. But Rand posts this, a lecture series that he did years ago called Defense Against the Dark Arts of Psychological Manipulation. And so it's basically like a slide a day that talks about how psychological manipulation happens.

No, no. Okay. Not usually. But Rand posts this, a lecture series that he did years ago called Defense Against the Dark Arts of Psychological Manipulation. And so it's basically like a slide a day that talks about how psychological manipulation happens.

No, no. Okay. Not usually. But Rand posts this, a lecture series that he did years ago called Defense Against the Dark Arts of Psychological Manipulation. And so it's basically like a slide a day that talks about how psychological manipulation happens.

And one of the things that he talks about is a cognitive DDoS attack.

And one of the things that he talks about is a cognitive DDoS attack.

And one of the things that he talks about is a cognitive DDoS attack.

Denial of service. It's basically like a hacking attack where you have a bot farm or just a lot of people sort of like query a website over and over again until the website shuts down. So what this looks like on the cognitive level-

Denial of service. It's basically like a hacking attack where you have a bot farm or just a lot of people sort of like query a website over and over again until the website shuts down. So what this looks like on the cognitive level-

Denial of service. It's basically like a hacking attack where you have a bot farm or just a lot of people sort of like query a website over and over again until the website shuts down. So what this looks like on the cognitive level-

is let's say you're waiting for an important piece of mail and you go to your mailbox and that message that you're waiting for isn't in there, but you have a hundred other pieces of mail that say nonsense on them or they're junk mail, right? The next day you have a thousand pieces of mail, right?

is let's say you're waiting for an important piece of mail and you go to your mailbox and that message that you're waiting for isn't in there, but you have a hundred other pieces of mail that say nonsense on them or they're junk mail, right? The next day you have a thousand pieces of mail, right?

is let's say you're waiting for an important piece of mail and you go to your mailbox and that message that you're waiting for isn't in there, but you have a hundred other pieces of mail that say nonsense on them or they're junk mail, right? The next day you have a thousand pieces of mail, right?

Eventually, it's going to be too costly from your time and your just effort to go through all of those messages to find the message that you actually want. And eventually, it's going to just be, yeah, it's just too costly to go through all of that information in order to find what the signal is. There's too much noise, not enough signal, basically. Right. And so by...

Eventually, it's going to be too costly from your time and your just effort to go through all of those messages to find the message that you actually want. And eventually, it's going to just be, yeah, it's just too costly to go through all of that information in order to find what the signal is. There's too much noise, not enough signal, basically. Right. And so by...

Eventually, it's going to be too costly from your time and your just effort to go through all of those messages to find the message that you actually want. And eventually, it's going to just be, yeah, it's just too costly to go through all of that information in order to find what the signal is. There's too much noise, not enough signal, basically. Right. And so by...

sort of assaulting, let's say, a hashtag or a news piece with a bunch of information that is sort of nonsensical. In fact, I think Steve Bannon calls this flooding the zone with shit. Essentially, you can make the noise go away or be so reduced that you're never going to be able to hear the signal within it.

sort of assaulting, let's say, a hashtag or a news piece with a bunch of information that is sort of nonsensical. In fact, I think Steve Bannon calls this flooding the zone with shit. Essentially, you can make the noise go away or be so reduced that you're never going to be able to hear the signal within it.

sort of assaulting, let's say, a hashtag or a news piece with a bunch of information that is sort of nonsensical. In fact, I think Steve Bannon calls this flooding the zone with shit. Essentially, you can make the noise go away or be so reduced that you're never going to be able to hear the signal within it.