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Macrodata Refinement

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722 points gaws | 1 comments | 01 Feb 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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ninkendo ◴[01 Feb 25 23:51 UTC] No.42903845[source]▶
Are there any fan theories of what the work is they’re doing?

My bet is on lumen “renting” part of their subconscious to train a computer, while their conscious minds see a sort of projection of the training, and the act of selecting the numbers has a mirror effect on the part of the brain they’re renting, affecting the model training. But that may be a little too “current events” focused, and the writers may have something totally different in mind.

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1. NoMoreNicksLeft ◴[02 Feb 25 18:24 UTC] No.42910543[source]▶
Best I can figure is that it's some form of cryptography. The "severed" thing would be to compartmentalize even more what the underlying work is, the outties are clueless, but even the innies don't get to know what they do because the work is encrypted. They're able to perform it because another part of their brain is severed even more, and just performs the raw algorithm work of decrypting/sorting.

But the rest of Lumen just seems like some bizarro "there's a spaceship hiding in the tail of the comet" cult.