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Your media devices block anything that repeats more than twice to protect you from being programmed without consent

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Darko Savic
Darko Savic May 28, 2022
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A feature where your media devices block anything that repeats more than twice. It protects you from being programmed without your consent.
Why?
  • Whatever is designed for repetition is likely meant to program you. It sucks when that's done without your consent. Think ads, political propaganda, fake news, etc.
  • This is an "anti-virus" for the mind.
  • People are vulnerable to repetition in multiple ways. One is Illusory truth effect - the more times we hear something, the more we believe it.
  • Some companies with long visions go for spamming cartoons and Youtube for kids. They get them at very young ages before the kids are able to understand what the ads are about. They then sing the jingles for the nonsense that they don't yet need/understand (but will when they grow up). This is wrong on so many levels.
How it works
Pattern recognition is built into all your media devices (phone, tv, radio, computer, etc).
As soon as something (video/audio/image) repeats for the 3rd time, the device automatically mutes/masks it. In it's place there is a visual counter counting down the seconds to when the hidden content piece will be over. You can touch the screen to reveal what is being masked and additionally click to permanently/temporarily exempt it from being masked in the future.
Smart masking
The devices can recognize environments where repetition is expected. Such as songs (but not ads) on youtube and spotify. If something slips by in such environments you can still touch the screen to manually mask all future repetition of the content piece.
Masking of words via AI
When listening to the news, the content is delayed by a few seconds, just long enough for the AI-powered context recognition to determine if you've already heard the story. There is no need to beat the story into your brain. You can select the number of times you are willing to hear something. Twice should be more than plenty. All subsequent repetitions are prevented.
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Goran Radanovic
Goran Radanovic2 years ago
What if it's an on-going crisis that the news is reporting and new information develops that's tied to what was mentioned? Does this program block out that part and only relay the new info?
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Darko Savic
Darko Savic2 years ago
Goran Radanovic hmm..
If it's a developing story, chances are you will be bombarded by the news from all directions, including other people. When the software is intelligent enough it would recognize the context and let the new developments pass through twice. For the initial few versions, I imagine the entire story (war in Ukraine) would get blocked after hearing about it twice from your devices. Unique wording would get the story through every now and then but eventually, all angles would be covered and blocked.
I would be ok with that. There is no fear of missing out. If it's important, I won't need my devices to hear about it. If it's not critical, twice is more than plenty to hear about anything.
Also, let's not forget that I can set exemptions and let the media bombard me with anything I want to hear about.
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