The Buzzword Blog #5 : Subversion


Subversion:

The word 'subverted' has itself been subverted by agendists and has become just another buzzword.

It now tends to mean:
1 -  'them' telling people things that 'we' don't want them to know.
2 - 'them' using technology in a way that 'we' don't want them to.

Some examples:

When you try to go against someone who was elected democratically with false accusations, this is a subversive act.

This wonderfully ambiguous wording was reported to have been spoke by Silvio Berlusconi.

Random Reward Schedules and the Ambiguity of Language.

I had the clue from Pavlov: control your conditions and you will see order.

B.F. Skinner, A Case History In Scientific Method.

Skinner discovered that the rate with which the rat pressed the bar depended not on any preceding stimulus (as Watson and Pavlov had insisted), but on what followed the bar presses. This was new indeed. Unlike the reflexes that Pavlov had studied, this kind of behavior operated on the environment and was controlled by its effects.
Skinner named it operant behavior.

The Intelligence in the Chinese Room.



In my  article Digging Beneath the Surface of Grammar, I wrote:

Strangeness And Ambiguity In Language

My major linguistic interest lies in the problem of getting a computer to interact with us humans using language in exactly the way that we do.  It is just not acceptable to any rational human being that they should be forced to adopt a jargon or baby-talk just to get a computer to do what it was invented for: making life easier.  Under no circumstances should we accept a computer operating system or program that has the audacity to issue commands to a human.

Thinking Machines and The Semantic Quagmire



What Is The Semantic Quagmire?

Fraud Takes A Lot Of Brass


There have been many daring and dastardly deeds of deception throughout history.  The daring deeds of the French Maquis and Britain's SOE in the second world war are legendary.

The faker and fraudster, on the other hand, just need a lot of brass¹ to make a lot of brass².

Our generall caused to be set up a plate of brasse, fast nailed to a great and firme poste; whereon is engraven her Grace’s name and the day and years of our arrival there ...

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