Now, it’s psyops for your Second Life

More than one way to skin a cat: Users of the Sentient World Simulation can use graphs, charts and even alternate reality avatars to visualize their information.

U.S defense, intel and homeland security officials are constructing a parallel world, on a computer, which the agencies will use to test propaganda messages and military strategies.

Called the Sentient World Simulation, the program uses AI routines based upon the psychological theories of Marty Seligman, among others. (Seligman introduced the theory of “learned helplessness” in the 1960s, after shocking beagles until they cowered, urinating, on the bottom of their cages.)

Yank a country’s water supply. Stage a military coup. SWS will tell you what happens next.

The sim will feature an AR avatar for each person in the real world, based upon data collected about us from government records and the internet.

The Defense Department is already running sims of Iraq and Afghanistan, China and dozens of other countries, as it prepares for a future of house-to-house urban warfare.

Here’s a link (below) to my story about the Sentient World Simulation at The Register:

clipped from www.theregister.com
Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale
Sim Strife
By Mark Baard
Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a “synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information”, according to a concept paper for the project.”SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP),” the paper reads, so that military leaders can “develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners”

14 Responses to “Now, it’s psyops for your Second Life”

  1. it just keeps getting scarier and scarier…

  2. Wow…

  3. I think this sounds like a pretty exciting idea for a video game.

  4. “….according to a concept paper for the project.”

    Has anyone located the PDF in question?

    Anyways, if you wrote that story, my hat is off to you, it was a damn good read.

  5. just another maniacal course of action, in the maniac kingdom……

  6. I read what that torturer did to those animals and its ‘result’ of ‘learned helplessness’ for the ‘purposes’ of trying to ‘understand’ ‘depression’, and this horror has consumed me for the best part of the day.
    Where does one begin with this mindfuck?
    To even DO such a thing shows quite clearly the person(s) doing it are cut off from their feelings, or soul, YET are not aware of that.
    …But anyhow that mindset is part and parcel with the rest of what you reveal. People that abuse animals abuse people, and ultimately themselves.

    We need to be very aware of where they are at, and
    what they are up to on all fronts–full spectrum AWARENESS…!–but also need ourselves to change our lifestyles from dependence on their control, to one where we create abundance. So WE are not cowering in fear, which is what they want, and push through their media and film etc.

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  9. FYI

    Love “Light” and Energy

    _Don

  10. FYI

  11. Thirtyseven: the concept paper, with black censorship marks all over it is:
    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/info_ops_roadmap.pdf

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