Post: #26

Nothing that we write about on here is nearly as bad as the things I hear at work in the lunch rooms and smoke pits, so I basically don't have to worry about work, my colleagues are pretty rough around the edges. If my family found out, I don't think that they'd be very surprised, they know I like to party, travel and always have different girls on the go, they're probably just laugh.

Post: #27

(12-22-2013 02:01 PM)iknowexactly Wrote:  Obligatory paranoid rant: AI Writing style recognition will make writing anonymously online harder and harder. Just like 40 year old DNA can convict a rapist of rape committed before DNA testing existed, writing style recognition will out many, many people here, especially anyone with gubm1nt jobs ( if I replaced the "one" the spelling of government is a flag that would mark my style different from 99% of all other writers on the internet. Se show easy it is?)

The only PR needed is to cite a couple "hate boards" from Islamic countries to justify trolling everything and tracking everyone

Scifi mode off. Everything is cool.

This is something I've thought about many times and I wouldn't be surprised if such technology currently exists being employed by the NSA. It's inevitable that at some point in the future someone will be able to cull the entire archive of the internet and find articles with similar writing styles and start connecting to dots. You know it's going to happen. It will analyze your grammar usage, frequently repeated words and phrases, any peculiar phrasing you use, dialect, subject matter. This shit will be here, mark my words.

Post: #28

It is becoming more and more irrelevant to me. In about two months, I will have made the move permanently to a third-world country, where most people won't speak English and the few that do will not have the skills or interest in tracking me on Western based websites. They simply wouldn't comprehend 95% of what is written here.

I am actively building an existence where few people will need to know my real name. Nearly everything will be behind the wall of a shell corporation once I am ready to break into the world of high end consulting.

Until then, I'll be making a very decent living working for Chinese based clients who naturally assume that I'm a player, based on my foreign-ness alone.

Post: #29

I had a dream that some people I know put 1 and 1 together and concluded it was me on this profile, and that "the word was out". Not sure what to think of that.

Post: #30

(01-15-2014 10:17 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  

(12-22-2013 02:01 PM)iknowexactly Wrote:  Obligatory paranoid rant: AI Writing style recognition will make writing anonymously online harder and harder.

This is something I've thought about many times and I wouldn't be surprised if such technology currently exists being employed by the NSA.

The technology already exists. Google "forensic linguistics + machine learning". Here's an example of what you get:

• Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics (2001): "We describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different e-mail topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation."