Shadowbanometry

Shadowbanning and cancelling are useful measuring devices.

I’m listening to some VC types discussing Balaji’s strange bet. I have exactly zero gambling genes, so my understanding of this type of behavior is extremely dim at best. After listening several times and thinking, I sort of halfway semi-understand: Balaji is known to hold far more than one million of bitcoin “value”, probably about 25 million. He knows that his public pronouncements move markets, because greater fools are abundant in the bitcoin sphere. He also knows that this bet will RAISE the “value” of bitcoin. So he doesn’t care if he wins or loses the bet. The action of DECLARING the bet has already raised the “value” enough to give him a profit by selling some of his holdings, which will easily exceed the loss of paying the bet.

His desired side effects are more obvious even to a dimbulb like me. Balaji is openly saying that the banking system will fail and hyperinflation is coming.

Is this what Deepstate wants a major influencer to say? Yes.

Why does Deepstate want this belief? Because this belief will force the central bank to resume QE.

How do we know that Deepstate is with Balaji?

Balaji’s social media influence is AMPLIFIED by the algorithms, not ATTENUATED (shadowbanned). This multiplier tells us that Balaji strongly resonates with Deepstate. An influencer who is OUT OF RESONANCE, literally offbeat, will be attenuated by beating against Deepstate.

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I’ll use two different types of balance or bridge to show how a balance can detect dynamic or functional qualities, not just static measurements like weight and resistance. These balances send a signal toward the object being measured, and detect the difference between the sent and received signal. If the object is a faithful reflector or amplifier, the difference can be nulled. If the object introduces its own distortions, the difference can’t be nulled.

First: The standing-wave balance, commonly used in acoustics labs, sends a steady sound wave down a tube toward a sample of an unknown substance. By changing the frequency of the wave you can set up a resonance in the tube. If you can achieve a resonance or standing wave, you can measure the difference between incident and reflected waves by measuring the strength at the nodes or low points. A perfect reflection leads to zero pressure at the node points.

Here we’re using a GenRad tuning fork oscillator to drive the speaker, and using a GenRad sound level meter to pick up the resultant sound. The sample goes in the cap at the left end. The microphone has a long probe extending through the speaker into the resonance tube, and the probe can be moved back and forth by pushing the microphone car. (Incidentally, the car is sort of fun to ‘drive’, and can be controlled vernierly with the big wheels.)

Polistra has opened up the sample cap, and Happystar has a precut sample of an unknown material ready for insertion.

With the oscillator driving the speaker, we can see the green outgoing wave first, then the violet reflected wave by itself, then the interference pattern of the incident and reflected waves. The open end of the microphone probe is roughly centered in the tube. (I’ve shifted the reflected wave upward for easier visibility.)

Here’s a more schematic image of what really happens. Bear in mind that there’s no such thing as zero air pressure. Sound waves are repetitions of increased pressure (red) and decreased pressure (blue) with the “zero” crossings at normal atmospheric pressure. As the incident and reflected waves move through the tube, the actual audible and measurable pressure at each location is always the result of mixing or summing the increased and decreased pressures. The nodes are the places that stay centered as the mix goes up and down.

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Now we bring in the original question of sensing or measuring faithfulness of reflection. What happens when the material sample distorts the sound instead of just reflecting part of it? Some materials contain a variety of internal resonators that catch certain frequencies and create their own signals in response. Living things do this all the time.

There’s no way to detect a node or null now, because the reflection isn’t simply a copy or a negative copy of the original. There might be some points of lower sound, but they will be hard to spot amid the extra frequencies emitted by the active responder.

Several measuring tools for hearing are designed to pick up active live responses. The best is the OAE (oto-acoustic emission) instrument, which I detailed here. The OAE measurement is a truth detector, and is used in real life to detect fake claims of hearing damage.

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Second example of a dynamic balance or bridge: an old GenRad tube tester.

We have the same basic pieces. A tone generator drives the grid of the tube. When the voltage between the grid and filament of the tube increases, the flow from filament to plate decreases, and thus the voltage in the output loop. Ideally the output loop should provide an amplified reflection of the input loop. The earphones pick up the difference or balance point between the two loops. Adjusting the variable resistor R1 is like adjusting the small weight on a balance, compensating for the amplification.

Here Polistra is listening for the null while adjusting the resistor to reduce the amplification to equality.

As the pot moves both ways, the reflection in the output loop increases and decreases. At some setting of R1, the reflection will exactly null out the incident signal. If you had to divide the output signal by 4 to hear an exact balance or null, this tells you that the tube was multiplying the input by 4. The setting of R1 thus gives the amplification figure of the tube.

Now we introduce distortion, as we did with the standing-wave acoustic reflection. When the sample being examined (the tube) creates its own noise or active responses, there’s no chance of nulling the output. The output loop can never be either a copy or an inverted copy of the input, no matter how much it’s reduced by R1. There will always be something extra audible.

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When I wrote the above piece in late 2020, I was asking whether a null-detector can be used as a truth calibrator. At that time I didn’t see how it could be used. NOW I SEE.

Again the big point is: If we recognize that censorship is the inevitable natural DEFAULT, we can use censorship as a truth-measuring tool. Are the censors resonating with Balaji, or are they literally canceling his message with jamming noise?

If we delusionally believe that censorship is an aberrant and unnatural behavior, which didn’t exist until The Horrible Other Party took power, we will be unable to use the tool.