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(The below text version of the notes is for search purposes and convenience. See the PDF version for proper formatting such as bold, italics, etc., and graphics where applicable. Copyright: 2022 Retraice, Inc.)
Re29: The News and World Model 4
Retraice^1
Headlines should connect directly to our model of what's going on out there.
Air date: Tuesday, 25th Oct. 2022, 11:45 PM Eastern/US.
About news and headlines
News headlines should connect directly to our world model, WM4. But does reading the news really tells us what we think it does? Does it tell us `what's going on out there?' Yes and no.
The first rule of secrecy is: Nothing on paper.^2 So if there are any humans keeping secrets out there, we're not going to read about them in the news. But circumstances can reveal secrets. And maybe we're clever; maybe we can connect the dots. And to do anything complicated, humans must write things down, so there will be written evidence of some sort.
`The news' is at least three things: 1. an answer to `What's going on out there?'; 2. an attempt to capture your attention; 3. a strong indicator of what people around you are (or will be) talking about.
We'll keep these things in mind, as well as our `eight M's' cheatsheet: medium, message, math, matter, money, motives, makers, masters.^3
Today's sources
* The New York Times Stories about a U.S.-Saudi oil deal and Democrat reactions connect to `strategic intelligence' (SI), `blue and red politics' (B&R) and H5 (`Civil War: The U.S. seems vulnerable to a civil war this decade.'). Other political news stories connect similarly. Culture and opinion articles tell us about what people might be thinking and talking about, which connect to the `self model' and `motivation model' elements of `natural intelligence'. This is the part of `what's going on out there' that is public conversation, which is a lot of what the news is (item 3 above). * Fox News Fox has mostly U.S. political content. This is all strategic intelligence, blue and red politics, and civil war stuff (SI/B&R/H5).
Side note on the business press: Chomsky said once that they have to be more honest, because their readers have real money at stake. Here's the full claim:
"There was some interesting stuff written about this [education and student attitudes toward authority] by Sam Bowles and Herb Gintis, two economists, in their work on the American educational system some years back. They pointed out that the educational system is divided into fragments. The part that's directed towards working people and the general population is indeed designed to impose obedience. But the education for elites can't quite do that. It has to allow creativity and independence. Otherwise they won t be able to do their job of making money. You find the same thing in the press. That's why I read the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times and Business Week. They just have to tell the truth."^4
* The Financial Times The lead story about Google (Alphabet) revenue growth slowing down is connected to WM4 as strategic intelligence (businesses are enmeshed complexes of competition, i.e. games, i.e. game theory) as well as artificial intelligence (without ad revenue, there's no money for Google's world-leading AI programs in Deep Mind and Google Brain). So: SI and AI. We're also talking about natural intelligence (NI): some people are going to act on this news. Recently, Netflix's subscription growth hit a similar wall, and suffered a similar adverse reaction by shareholders (NI, SI, and Netflix is a big user of AI recommendation engines^5).
Side note on business growth (and economic growth more generally): It's a complicated topic. It is often seen on the left as the root of all evil, and by business people and the right as priority number one. We consider it more complicated than either of these characterizations allows. * The Financial Times (cont.) A story about Pakistan, floods, climate change and seeking `justice' connects to WM4's `Nature is physics, selection and not f-ing around' (NINFA). Stories about TSMC and Taiwan, and Xi's new politburo members, connect to strategic intelligence, H4 (`China: The U.S. is no longer the only superpower; war is likely.') and our yet-unpublished hypothesis on Taiwan (SI/H4/Taiwan). * The Wall Street Journal WSJ also leads with the Google revenue slow-down. We can also connect this story to the effects of a U.S. economic slow down on H5 (Civil War). An Intel self-driving-car unit went public (AI). Russian oligarchs are hiding their wealth from Ukraine-war-related sanctions (SI). Kanye West did something bad. (NI?) * BBC News Rishi Sunak, the new UK prime minister, is settling in. (SI) Russia is using a U.S. athlete as a pawn. (SI)
Side note on news and business and their competing incentives: Businesses always want less bad news (about themselves), but news companies always want more bad news (about anything). * Vice NASA is starting a new UFO study (NI, NINFA, SI).^6 * TMZ Celebrities. People will talk about it. (NI?)
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References
Chomsky, N. (1997). Class Warfare. New Star Books. ISBN: 1554200040. https://archive.org/details/classwarfare0000chom/page/n5/mode/2up Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=1554200040 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+1554200040 https://lccn.loc.gov/96000495
Dolan, R. M. (2000). UFOs and the National Security State Vol. 1: An Unclassified History. Keyhole, 1st ed. ISBN: 0967799503. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=0967799503 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+0967799503 https://lccn.loc.gov/00691087
Dolan, R. M. (2009). UFOs and the National Security State Vol. 2: The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991. Keyhole. ISBN: 978-0967799513. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0967799513 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0967799513
Gerrish, S. (2018). How Smart Machines Think. The MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262038409. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9780262038409 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+9780262038409 https://lccn.loc.gov/2017059862
Keyhoe, D. (1950). The Flying Saucers Are Real. Forgotten Books. ISBN: 978-1605065472. Originally published 1950; this edition 2008. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781605065472 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+9781605065472 https://lccn.loc.gov/50004886
Powers, T. (1979). The Man Who Kept The Secrets: Richard Helms And The CIA. Pocket. ISBN: 0671456679. https://archive.org/details/manwhokeptsecret00powe/page/n5/mode/2up Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=0671456679 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+0671456679 https://lccn.loc.gov/79002210
Retraice (2022/10/21). Re25: Reading The New York Times and Fox News. retraice.com. https://www.retraice.com/segments/re25 Retrieved 22nd Oct. 2022.
Footnotes
^1 https://www.retraice.com/retraice
^2 Powers (1979) p. 165.
^3 Retraice (2022/10/21).
^4 Chomsky (1997) p. 171
^5 Gerrish (2018) chpt. 5.
^6 See Dolan (2000) and Dolan (2009) and Keyhoe (1950) for most if not all of what has been said about UFOs, recent news stories notwithstanding.
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By Retraice, Inc.(The below text version of the notes is for search purposes and convenience. See the PDF version for proper formatting such as bold, italics, etc., and graphics where applicable. Copyright: 2022 Retraice, Inc.)
Re29: The News and World Model 4
Retraice^1
Headlines should connect directly to our model of what's going on out there.
Air date: Tuesday, 25th Oct. 2022, 11:45 PM Eastern/US.
About news and headlines
News headlines should connect directly to our world model, WM4. But does reading the news really tells us what we think it does? Does it tell us `what's going on out there?' Yes and no.
The first rule of secrecy is: Nothing on paper.^2 So if there are any humans keeping secrets out there, we're not going to read about them in the news. But circumstances can reveal secrets. And maybe we're clever; maybe we can connect the dots. And to do anything complicated, humans must write things down, so there will be written evidence of some sort.
`The news' is at least three things: 1. an answer to `What's going on out there?'; 2. an attempt to capture your attention; 3. a strong indicator of what people around you are (or will be) talking about.
We'll keep these things in mind, as well as our `eight M's' cheatsheet: medium, message, math, matter, money, motives, makers, masters.^3
Today's sources
* The New York Times Stories about a U.S.-Saudi oil deal and Democrat reactions connect to `strategic intelligence' (SI), `blue and red politics' (B&R) and H5 (`Civil War: The U.S. seems vulnerable to a civil war this decade.'). Other political news stories connect similarly. Culture and opinion articles tell us about what people might be thinking and talking about, which connect to the `self model' and `motivation model' elements of `natural intelligence'. This is the part of `what's going on out there' that is public conversation, which is a lot of what the news is (item 3 above). * Fox News Fox has mostly U.S. political content. This is all strategic intelligence, blue and red politics, and civil war stuff (SI/B&R/H5).
Side note on the business press: Chomsky said once that they have to be more honest, because their readers have real money at stake. Here's the full claim:
"There was some interesting stuff written about this [education and student attitudes toward authority] by Sam Bowles and Herb Gintis, two economists, in their work on the American educational system some years back. They pointed out that the educational system is divided into fragments. The part that's directed towards working people and the general population is indeed designed to impose obedience. But the education for elites can't quite do that. It has to allow creativity and independence. Otherwise they won t be able to do their job of making money. You find the same thing in the press. That's why I read the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times and Business Week. They just have to tell the truth."^4
* The Financial Times The lead story about Google (Alphabet) revenue growth slowing down is connected to WM4 as strategic intelligence (businesses are enmeshed complexes of competition, i.e. games, i.e. game theory) as well as artificial intelligence (without ad revenue, there's no money for Google's world-leading AI programs in Deep Mind and Google Brain). So: SI and AI. We're also talking about natural intelligence (NI): some people are going to act on this news. Recently, Netflix's subscription growth hit a similar wall, and suffered a similar adverse reaction by shareholders (NI, SI, and Netflix is a big user of AI recommendation engines^5).
Side note on business growth (and economic growth more generally): It's a complicated topic. It is often seen on the left as the root of all evil, and by business people and the right as priority number one. We consider it more complicated than either of these characterizations allows. * The Financial Times (cont.) A story about Pakistan, floods, climate change and seeking `justice' connects to WM4's `Nature is physics, selection and not f-ing around' (NINFA). Stories about TSMC and Taiwan, and Xi's new politburo members, connect to strategic intelligence, H4 (`China: The U.S. is no longer the only superpower; war is likely.') and our yet-unpublished hypothesis on Taiwan (SI/H4/Taiwan). * The Wall Street Journal WSJ also leads with the Google revenue slow-down. We can also connect this story to the effects of a U.S. economic slow down on H5 (Civil War). An Intel self-driving-car unit went public (AI). Russian oligarchs are hiding their wealth from Ukraine-war-related sanctions (SI). Kanye West did something bad. (NI?) * BBC News Rishi Sunak, the new UK prime minister, is settling in. (SI) Russia is using a U.S. athlete as a pawn. (SI)
Side note on news and business and their competing incentives: Businesses always want less bad news (about themselves), but news companies always want more bad news (about anything). * Vice NASA is starting a new UFO study (NI, NINFA, SI).^6 * TMZ Celebrities. People will talk about it. (NI?)
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References
Chomsky, N. (1997). Class Warfare. New Star Books. ISBN: 1554200040. https://archive.org/details/classwarfare0000chom/page/n5/mode/2up Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=1554200040 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+1554200040 https://lccn.loc.gov/96000495
Dolan, R. M. (2000). UFOs and the National Security State Vol. 1: An Unclassified History. Keyhole, 1st ed. ISBN: 0967799503. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=0967799503 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+0967799503 https://lccn.loc.gov/00691087
Dolan, R. M. (2009). UFOs and the National Security State Vol. 2: The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991. Keyhole. ISBN: 978-0967799513. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0967799513 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0967799513
Gerrish, S. (2018). How Smart Machines Think. The MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262038409. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9780262038409 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+9780262038409 https://lccn.loc.gov/2017059862
Keyhoe, D. (1950). The Flying Saucers Are Real. Forgotten Books. ISBN: 978-1605065472. Originally published 1950; this edition 2008. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781605065472 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+9781605065472 https://lccn.loc.gov/50004886
Powers, T. (1979). The Man Who Kept The Secrets: Richard Helms And The CIA. Pocket. ISBN: 0671456679. https://archive.org/details/manwhokeptsecret00powe/page/n5/mode/2up Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=0671456679 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+0671456679 https://lccn.loc.gov/79002210
Retraice (2022/10/21). Re25: Reading The New York Times and Fox News. retraice.com. https://www.retraice.com/segments/re25 Retrieved 22nd Oct. 2022.
Footnotes
^1 https://www.retraice.com/retraice
^2 Powers (1979) p. 165.
^3 Retraice (2022/10/21).
^4 Chomsky (1997) p. 171
^5 Gerrish (2018) chpt. 5.
^6 See Dolan (2000) and Dolan (2009) and Keyhoe (1950) for most if not all of what has been said about UFOs, recent news stories notwithstanding.