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2026-10-28

You can borrow tactics from psychological warfare

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• Quick Note
• target audience - people working full-time on anti-ASI persuasion
• trigger warning - descriptions of violence

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• I am not sure which tactics will have what effects, but you should be aware this is a tool in your toolkit.
• Example: Use AI to generate photorealistic images of Altman and Amodei butt naked and impaled
• Historical equivalents would be Genghis Khan leaving heaps of bones outside cities, or other rulers impaling prisoners of war outside cities, in order to terrorise the people inside.
• Threatening messages are more likely to taken seriously, when backed by actual credible threats of violence. Otherwise people can just close the browser tab. Or if you play these messages in-person, people can probably just sue you or arrest you.
• There is a reason why the most threatening messages are used on actual battlefields where you neither have the option of ignoring the message, nor shutting down the person broadcasting the message.
• See also: Wikipedia on Psychological warfare
• See also: Wikipedia on Psychological operations
• See also: Wikipedia on Music in psychological operations

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