Podcast | Disinfolklore Detector - Live Demo

A listener asked: “I’m definitely interested to hear more in detail about how you use AI.”

This week’s work was precipitated by a new model, which Anthropic dropped last week. Opus 5.5 has, for reasons that will become clear, become a bit of a revolutionary model. By model I mean a neural network algorithm. I am describing the architecture and the algorithm behind what many of us see as a chatbot.

But there is a different way to use the model behind the chatbot. You reach it through a part of the computer that those of us old enough will remember from the 1980s and MS-DOS. It involves all of these little instructions. On a Mac it’s called Terminal. It is a part of our computer which is there, and which most of us never go to. It lets us reach these models in a way you cannot easily reach them through a chatbot.

Some of you will also remember that I have been going through the principles of Infolklore. I use many words from the transcripts of Volya, and I am trying to derive the principles of Infolklore from the way many of us present on Volya. Last week’s episode carried the latest of them.

The Meta Main Game

The aim of all of my work is what I call the Meta Main Game. Within about ten years, the assisted cognition we already experience is likely to be mainstreamed directly inside our minds. We experience it now by interfacing with the internet, through chatbots, through web browsers, through this very app.

Whether that is done through connectors implanted in us or through light, I don’t know. Obviously Facebook and Elmo are working on implants. I am agnostic about whatever technology is used. I hope it isn’t done through implants, because I think that’s pretty gross.

My goal is to prepare for that moment. I want to prepare a module that an interpreter of sensory data will use, through assisted cognition, to determine quickly whether the data she is encountering is Disinfolklore, Infolklore or Neutral. It should work for humans or for computers.

So it is an intermediary through which data streams. It lets us make decisions very quickly in the face of what I expect to be ever-accelerating vectors of information and sensory data. By sensory data I mean not just text, and not just music. I mean everything we encounter in our reality, including conversations, what people are telling us, and what we are feeling.

Disinfolklore, as we know, is folklore-like story weaponised to inject lies, exploitative mental models and coercive control into minds. Infolklore is