VIDEO BLOG: "TOKENIZING MEMORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY"

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Originally published at: VIDEO BLOG: "TOKENIZING MEMORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY"

I’m trying out a new idea today, a “video blog” on YouTube, which I’m planning to do as additional blogs to the written blogs on the website. Please like and share if you enjoyed this blog. “TOKENIZING MEMORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY”

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… I think you would be surprised at the number of people who would show up to chat during a video blog if we had a little heads up. :slight_smile:

Could it be that the ULTIMATE GOAL of what you suggest is the tokenization of the process of Cognition itself. If one looks around in the Cognitive Science literature (keeping in mind that CS spans several disciplines) one can already see attempts at this.

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Even without notice a good number of people did show up…

Hopefully this will attract some new blood to the subscribers area.

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Yay! doc is back on the YouTube !

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This was an informative video that we Gizer’s take for granted. I hope that the vast UTube audience will discover and benefit from it and more of them in the future.

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Yes, great video blog. I’m voting “yes” to keep that going!

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The problem with YouTube is their community guidelines would (and as I recall back when we were doing them that way, DID) interfere with the free flow of discussion that we’re used to in vidchats…

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No problem, the YouTube videos would suffice as an incentive to check out the website and participate in the forum and vid chats.
Substack writers publish interesting articles for free to get subscribers, then offer the “good stuff” behind a paywall.

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Interestingly, at about the 49 min. mark, electronic books, and the turning off of features and revoking conditions comes up. Great interview otherwise as well.

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Great idea, looking forward to seeing Dr. Farrell on YT again,

I know their ridiculous algorithm will be a challenge to navigate but many other content creators covering ‘contraband’ issues have found ways to get the message across without triggering channel strikes.

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Great Blog! My vidchat question (already submitted) may seem a bit redundant at this point, but I’m interested in hearing more about your ideas on this one. Several people on my other forum mentioned the idea that the eventual idea was to prohibit hard-copy books, and I was thinking of my old roommate with a degree in Chinese studies saying: “Burn Book Bury Scholar.” (A quote from the First Emperor of China, who is said to have done that very thing).

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Thank you. I saw this on YouTube but thought it might be a “spoof” so didn’t bother with it. Now I know differently.

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… another, probably apocryphal, anecdote … When asked why he wanted the books burned and the scholars killed The Emperor replied: “So that there will be no history before me.” or “Because there was no history before me.” In our case it is likely more Orwellian … things are as they are now, and you are as you are now, because of the inevitabilities of “recorded” history. Go ahead, check against your own memory. See?

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This is purported to be leaked video from Anthropic’s copying of books with automatic scanning…Ministry of Truth begins in earnest. Evan Luthra on X: "THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯 A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words: "Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world." Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this." They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it. It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog." Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no. That's when they found the loophole. Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling. One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day. Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal. If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy. They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book. And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else. The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months. They killed something permanent to feed something disposable." / X

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… Why didn’t they use the millions and millions of books already scanned by sites like Google Books and Gutenberg? Probably because Google and Gutenberg would have charged them and because Anthropic did not want it known that they had such a project. I can’t believe that physical separation and pulping was necessary in many, many cases.

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There is certainly something very disturbing about this post and the entire Anthropic story.

1.) That ancient scanner in that video, think of a 1970’s Polaroid camera, is taking video pictures of a Libyan government manual of laws and decision they make while session is in. Circa: 1980’s

Close up of the document in the video. It’s a record of their daily activities. So not a rare book.

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  1. THE COVER OF THE BOOKS IS IN TACT

  2. That machine scanning is not sold in the USA. It’s sold in Austria. It can scan 1800 pages per hour. The court documents speak of a modern machine,

IBML Fusion HD high speed scanner 40,000-44,000

No specific brand but a list of possible brands in the document. This is the fastest that American Corporations would purchase.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH0LyTjTu4w)

  1. The guy putting this out on social media is some real shady dude from Liberland. Is that a Sikh hat? Not sure. I know nothing except what I just read on Liberland. 1200 residents? Impossible to get in? And he promotes some crypto company in Asia. Top to bottom this guys an agent of someone.

American Social Media?

He inserted opinions that weren’t referenced in any of the documents.

Other stories floating around are using AI photo’s to describe an AI Crime

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Somebody is inserting a moral panic into the matrix. If we’re going to be concerned about proper attribution, I’d suggest in digital disney land, no such things exists. Nobody is going to police, enforce it and anything you put out doesn’t belong to you the moment you give it out.

At least 1/2 that post is fabricated

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This is how either fascism or communism begins in America.
It always starts with a “baptism of fire”. Wait… wrong, they don’t even bother to shock the medium with the light and fire, just lousy shredders. O tempora, o mores, John Dee is turning in his grave.

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usually comes wrapped/packaged in a Stars & Stripes Flag.

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It was Nikolai Yezhov then chief of NKVD in the old picture…and then he was not,in the new picture that is…

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… further discussions of Tokenization of various and sundry …

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/02/21/are-we-being-borged/

https://glorytogodstudio.com/commentary/tokenization-of-h₂o-whats-next-o₂/