[ricardobeat]

No harm meant, but your writing is very reminiscent of an LLM. It is great actually, there is just something about it - "it wasn't.. it was", "it stopped being.. and started". Claude and ChatGPT seem to love these juxtapositions. The triplets on every other sentence. I think you are a couple em-dashes away from being accused of being a bot.

These patterns seem to be picking up speed in the general population; makes the human race seem quite easily hackable.

[pixl97]

>makes the human race seem quite easily hackable.

If the human race were not hackable then society would not exist, we'd be the unchanging crocodiles of the last few hundred million years.

Have you ever found yourself speaking a meme? Had a catchy toon repeating in your head? Started spouting nation state level propaganda? Found yourself in crowd trying to burn a witch at the stake?

Hacking the flow of human thought isn't that hard, especially across populations. Hacking any one particular humans thoughts is harder unless you have a lot of information on them.

[direwolf20]

How do I hack the human population to give me money, and simultaneously, hack law enforcement to not arrest me?

[WA]

> How do I hack the human population to give me money

Make something popular or become famous.

> hack law enforcement to not arrest me

Don't become famous with illegal stuff.

The hack is that we live in a society that makes people think they need a lot of money and at the same time allows individuals to accumulate obscene amounts of wealth and influence and many people being ok with that.

[paulryanrogers]

> Don't become famous with illegal stuff.

Is this still a constraint? It would seem that money beyond a certain point allows one to wash ones reputation.

[WA]

For sure. But becoming famous for robbing the bank is not the way.

[direwolf20]

It worked for most of our current political elites.