r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 19h ago

Society Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent—Now Questions Are Mounting

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-struck-yandex-data-centers-russian-bots-went-silent-now-questions-are-mounting-23339
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u/PrizeSyntax 19h ago

Bots need data centers to run, data centers stopped working, bots stopped working. What's so complicated about that?

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u/TheWesternMythos 19h ago

As a society , as a species , we don't understand cognitive warfare. We do not understand our minds have been under siege for a while.

Our biological immune system is very good because it was tuned all of evolution. Our cognitive immune system is very much trash as it's had much much less time to tune itself 

We can tune it ourselves during the individual lifespan , but first we need to understand thats a thing to be done.

Everyone knows bots exist. Very few, if any, have mapped their cognitive genealogy...

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS 16h ago

Mmm… I disagree with your assertion that cognitive warfare is particularly new though, it was just previously the domain of religions. Religious doctrine and ideology throughout history has followed much the same course, and it’s clear to see how deeply entwined the current fascist movement and Christian Fundamentalism have become. Secular thought has generally set religion aside out of distaste, and I’m afraid that that was a mistake. People thought that we could simply free ourselves of religion and educate our way out of its bonds, but instead we simply put a gun on the table for anyone to pick up.

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u/TheWesternMythos 8h ago

Certainly it's new compared to pathogens

And the scaling that social media and ML allows is in many ways a new beast 

Also the secular paths have their own versions of institutional warfare via doctrine 

But with that said I mostly agree with you