Adversarial Cognitive Propagation Profile.
The Adversarial Cognitive Propagation Profile (ACPP) names seven threats so a reader can recognize them operating on themselves. Each ACPP row below leads with the defensive diagnostic — the question to ask — and ends with a cross-link to the corresponding DCTI stage. The page is structured as an immune-system map.
Full operational detail — payload forms, success conditions, the offensive-objective taxonomy, the attack matrix techniques — is held internal per the dual-use clause in /canon/ethics. The summary below names the threat surface so readers can recognize it operating on them. The reasoning behind the cut lives at /research/cognitive.
Each threat below is a separate part of one architecture. Read through The Installed Watcher for why these seven and not others — together they build the terminal state where the operator no longer needs to operate.
§01the seven threats
Did this earn my attention, or did it seize it?
Attention-Capture
Seizes attention before reflective awareness can intervene. The operator is not yet trying to persuade; they are creating the pause.
defense → DCTI § stage 1What emotion did this signal ask me to feel before I knew whether it was true?
Affective-Tagging
Attaches emotion before meaning is evaluated. The signal arrives already colored — fear, belonging, outrage, shame, urgency.
defense → DCTI § stage 2What was the first version I encountered, and is it still underneath my later thoughts?
First-Frame Imprinting
Makes the first version the mental default. Later corrections become appendices, not replacements.
defense → DCTI § stage 3What had already been weighted before I started weighing?
Valuation-Bias
Loads the scale before deliberation begins. The target feels like they are reasoning while inputs have already been weighted.
defense → DCTI § stage 4What did this signal want me to do before I had time to understand it?
Behavioral-Commitment
Turns the target into a carrier. Belief is not always required; action is enough — share, repeat, post, vote, mock, defend.
defense → DCTI § stage 5What remains in me after the correction?
Residue-Persistence
Ensures damage remains after correction. The operator does not need the original claim intact; doubt, stigma, or distrust are enough.
defense → DCTI § stage 6Who owns the repair if this is wrong?
Repair-Disruption
Exploits harms that no institution has a category for. The viral misidentification with no agency to escalate to. The unowned harm.
defense → DCTI § stage 6§02practice — spot the stage
Recognition is a skill, and a taxonomy is not practice. Read each line and name the stage it is running. You are training the reflex on yourself, not learning to build the move.
“BREAKING — you need to see this before it gets taken down.”