[bagster]

Predictive linguistics is absolutely real. Emotions can predict the future.

Prediction in language comprehension

(excerpt)

Linguistic prediction is a phenomenon in psycholinguistics occurring whenever information about a word or other linguistic unit is activated before that unit is actually encountered.

Evidence from eyetracking, event-related potentials, and other experimental methods indicates that in addition to integrating each subsequent word into the context formed by previously encountered words, language users may, under certain conditions, try to predict upcoming words. In particular, prediction seems to occur regularly when the context of a sentence greatly limits the possible words that have not yet been revealed.

For instance, a person listening to a sentence like, "In the summer it is hot, and in the winter it is..." would be highly likely to predict the sentence completion "cold" in advance of actually hearing it.

A form of prediction is also thought to occur in some types of lexical priming, a phenomenon whereby a word becomes easier to process if it is preceded by a related word.[1] Linguistic prediction is an active area of research in psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience.

As you can see, 'predictive linguistics' has to do with predicting words in an individual, which is a far cry from 'predicting the future'. It is fully in the realm of 'linguistics', nothing more.

For this quack to try and extrapolate this into some kind of 'future proves past' crystal ball scenario is bogus in the extreme. You need to stop following quacks just because they sound pretty.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you.

[little jeremiah]

I was getting off my computer and just saw this, have to post it.

https://t.me/s/KanekoaTheGreat/3962
KanekoaTheGreat

People Overestimate The US War Machine And Underestimate The US Propaganda Machine

Twitter’s algorithm has promoted a Ukrainian news channel called the “The Kyiv Independent”, which has allowed it to gain two million followers since it was formed in November 2021 by the European Endowment for Democracy, a spin-off of a CIA-front organization called the National Endowment for Democracy.

The co-founder of NED famously said, “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA”.

The channel promotes highly biased content in favor of Zelensky and the western powers that want to escalate the war between Russia and Ukraine to include NATO and U.S. forces.

The outlet is being so loudly amplified by Twitter that one of its reporters (who calls the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion his “brothers in arms“) has gained a million followers since the start of the Russian invasion.

Do you see how sophisticated just that one tiny component of the US-centralized empire‘s propaganda campaign is?

How many seemingly disparate and unrelated elements it has?

Multiple countries, NGOs, an ostensibly independent social media platform, an ostensibly independent news outlet.

Truly, one of the most under-appreciated and overwhelmingly powerful forces on this earth is the US propaganda machine.

The ability to manipulate public thought, not just within the United States but across vast swaths of nations, has allowed it to manufacture international consensus for whatever agendas it wishes to advance in a way that eclipses the collective organizing power of official international bodies like the United Nations.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/03/20/people-overestimate-the-us-war-machine-and-underestimate-the-us-propaganda-machine/

[numberonepal]

We’re not exactly talking about the Wiki definition here. This is different. Clif High is the founder of the Predictive Linguistics field (1993). This process analyzes vast amounts of Internet data to predict future language about future events due to emotional releases from humans. His process uses Web Bots to aggregate vast amounts of written text from the Internet by categories delineated by emotional content of the words. His bots have actually predicted their own loss of accuracy due to censorship.

“In 1993, Clif High began his Predictive Linguistics experiment of releasing his web bots on the Internet, to scour areas rich in posted language, such as comment sections and later, social media. He used radical linguistics to reduce extracts from these postings to create an archetypal database. He would then calculate the rate of change of the language based on a system of associations between words and of numeric values for emotional responses from those words and then derive forecasts of the future from these calculations.

Due to the rampant censorship of the internet in recent years, both algorithmic and outright, Clif High’s web bots can no longer effectively produce the Asymmetric Language Trend Analysis reports that he published for many years. However, he did have these applications up and running for over 20 years and he still has all of the long term data that they accumulated.”