Comment by rafram
15 hours ago
People aren’t brigading you with downvotes (I highly doubt that whoever owns Slashdot now is hiring people to astroturf discussions about it on HN). Your comment is getting downvoted because it doesn’t really make sense.
The journalists referenced as having written the articles aren't people, they aren't journalists, they are AI. Honestly, what part of that doesn't make sense? Its the first statement practically.
The HAL comment is a euphemism based in satire to make light of a harsh disagreeable truth, implicitly along with the many failures that come with AI which any rational person would get if they actually read and understood the context of what was written (its not a large jump, but a machine wouldn't get it) Are you a bot?.
No Slashdot doesn't astroturf, but there are entities pushing a pro-AI agenda that do, and they search for sentiment on AI-based subjects and downvote negative sentiment.
Are you living under a rock to the point where you are not aware that this is a real problem, and its gotten to the point where academic researchers are digging into the statistics to show just how bad it is when moderation (the ability to hide or disappear posts through karma voting) is outsourced to hidden brigades with special interests.
There was a post just recently about this with regards to a runaway Reddit Moderator that own's a competing company for a coding boot camp that's removed all but 4 positive posts in the span of a year, and posted or amplified 500+ negative posts, and there were aspects that touch on gangstalking of that competitors C-level people and execs, which extended to their children.
If you aren't aware of these things, there are serious concerns that you are not really a person.
I have no idea what you’re talking about, genuinely.
I only know about “gangstalking” as a delusion held by many people with schizophrenia. Is that what you’re referring to?
> there are serious concerns that you are not really a person.
No, there aren’t!
> I have no idea what you're talking about, genuinely.
If that were true, then not only can you not understand or read basic context from text, but you also can't write a response that's specific to what you reference, dangling many things as something you don't undersatnd.
Reading comprehension and writing ability, at such a basic level is something most every grade schooler is capable of.
So that is either a lie for effect (elicitation), or you are a malign influence bot incapable.
I will leave this in the hands of the moderators as it appears you are misusing AI without disclosure to abuse commenters on HN and have violated HN rules at a bare minimum with the no sniping rule.
I am sure they will figure out whether your account merits further review based on your history.
Gangstalking has been in the news a lot in the last 5 years, hundreds of articles including national headlines. It stretches credulity beyond a breaking point towards malign intent when you say you have no idea about anything but then snipe breaking the rules.
It certainly looks like you are gaslighting when you claim organized harassment is just a delusion and suggest through implication that I have schizophrenia, and in doing so are following known and professionally documented tactics used by gaslighters (Stark 2019).
The State Department has had press conferences about gangstalking being done on US soil. People have gone to prison for criminal level harassment related to gangstalking. This is nothing new, it was called Zersetzung by the Stasi through the 1970s-90s.
Gaslighting is considered a form of emotional abuse by mental health professionals. You should seriously rethink ever doing that again. Its a form of torture.
It doesn't matter if you 'specifically' intended the implication or not, being willfully blind doesn't negate accountability for what you say and do, and no one posting on HN news lives under such a rock where they miss every single national headline in the last 5 years on that subject. There are hundreds of incidents, some overlapping that have reported on these things.
Now that you've been told, if you ever do it again; that will meet a sufficient burden for proof of general intent proving malice, by way of willful gross negligence. If the moderators search your profile and see you've been warned previously about this, that might be all that's needed for proof of malice.
It should go without saying. Good people don't do such things.
Evil people are weak and aimless individuals that willfully blind themselves to the consequences of their actions pretending that's not what they were doing lying to themselves and others, because they can't live with themselves otherwise, and they repeat this until someone stops them because that is their nature.
Sometimes this puts them in prison, sometimes capital punishment, always following due process of course.
Ebay gangstalking scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal
5 Charged with Gangstalking for Criminal Harassment on behalf of the PRC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkaUeg2SS0Q
What is Gaslighting exactly? Its purposeful emotional abuse. https://positivepsychology.com/gaslighting-emotional-abuse/
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