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True, but it was just the Snow Crash like ones that I had in mind. There are also adversarial attacks possible on all the other senses once you understand how they work at a physical or pre-processing level. You can make something cold feel hot, trigger speech patterns to go off by pre-setting them with auditory patterns, cause people to hear sounds that aren't there and so on. Given how many of these pathways are buggy it is quite impressive how well the brain can make sense of its surroundings. Mimicry in the animal kingdom is another 'adversarial input' that has potentially damaging effects on the perceivers (hunger!) but it is very much a defensive mechanism so that probably should not count either.



True nothing like snowcrash has yet to be created to any of our knowledges. Of course... if it was... how would we be able to respond to this thread! But this is whole other rabbit hole to go down that in light of some recents posts on the front page today doesn’t seem too fun.




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