Table Of ContentMay 22, 2021
Via m y Amazon-/Microsoft-/VC-praised* A I- preneurship, IDed
threat to many people + indicators that my electronic communi-
cations (e.g., emails, t exts) are interfered w ith sometimes #sigh +
you copy** f rom this w rite-up, then paste i nto a particular Web
form*** + . . . = many p eople might be much safer #!!
* L inks to the praise are below, along with excerpts. Search keywords: praise for
my AI-preneurship.
** e.g., copy the addendum below, which is formatted for the Web form
*** Keywords: startup that launched o n April 29, 2021 and was co-founded by a
public-health expert who’s a central figure in current bestseller T he Premonition:
A Pandemic Story, a 2021 book by Michael Lewis
Summary re: threat (some details follow; more below)
From a U niversity of Pennsylvania criminologist’ s 2013 b ook: ~ 78 m illion
psychopaths (Ps) are IMPERILED* (PsIMP) by a dvances in molecular genetics
(e.g., “i ndefinite detention” by the year 2034).
From a 2020 a rticle in N ature: “In the past decade, studies of psychopathological
genetics have become large enough to draw robust conclusions.”
(Very) likely:
● a g rowing number of Ps are aware that PsIMP, and are resisting
● Ps’ w ar chest is large and enlarging rapidly
There are indicators that Ps are leveraging life science to:
● weaponize viruses (e.g., for use after Ps have developed a vaccine, per
Pulitzer winner Lawrence Wright’s T he End of October) **
● develop “p ersonalized bioweapons”
* i.e., enormously imperiled
** From the April 2020 a rticle in The New Yorker t itled “What Lawrence Wright
Learned From His Pandemic Novel” (my emphases):
By the time Wright and I met for lunch and discussed his novel—“The End
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of October,” which is out this month—he had already done the coast-to-
coast reporting. He had met with epidemiologists, immunologists, micro-
biologists, security experts, vaccine experts, and public-health officials. He
had read all the books, all the journal articles. . . . The e xperts, Wright
notes in a letter to the reader in the galleys of his book, “a ll share the
concerns I’ve presented—that something like this could happen. ”
From T he End of October:
“Really, Henry,” Bartlett asked, “you think this [virus] was man-made?”
[Henry:] “Biowarfare has always been . . . the ultimate weapon of war, one
that can destroy the enemy without fingerprints.”
“I t only makes sense if they have also developed a vaccine [my
emphasis],” said Bartlett.
Re: Ps are aware
From a 2016 a rticle on PsychologyToday.com:
A [m eta-analytic] review of [48] studies found that the correlation between
psychopathy and intelligence is nearly zero [i.e., ~ 2.3% of Ps have an IQ ≥
130; ~16% ≥ 115] .
From the 2012 a rticle in F BI Law Enforcement Bulletin titled “The Corporate
Psychopath”:
Today’s corporate psychopath may be highly educated—several with
Ph.D., M.D., and J.D. degrees have been studied . . .
Re: it’s easy to interfere with electronic communications (e.g., to use “m an-
in-the-middle” attacks to intercept, spoof, etc.)
From 2021 book T his Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons
Arms Race, by a cybersecurity reporter for T he New York Times:
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“‘It’s like having cyber nukes in an unregulated market that can be bought
and sold anywhere in the world without discretion,’ he told me.”
“[C]ompared to conventional weapons, exploits were cheap. . . . The
Middle East’s oil-rich monarchies would pay just about anything to m onitor
their critics [ my emphasis].”
“But bugs and exploits took time to find and develop, and Sabien came to
the same conclusions as Watters’s team at iDefense. His twenty-five-man
team could scour for bugs and develop and test exploits nine-to-five, but it
would be far easier to outsource that work to the thousands of hackers
around the world who spent their days and nights glued to their computer
screens.
‘We knew we couldn’t find them all, but we also knew there was a low
barrier to entry,’ Sabien recalled. ‘Anyone with two thousand dollars to buy
a Dell is in the game.’
And so the underground market for zero-day bugs began.”
“Foreign governments were now willing to match American prices for the
best zero-days and cyberweaponry. . . . And in Iran and North Korea,
which could never match the United States in conventional warfare,
leaders saw cyber as their last hope of leveling the playing field. If the
NSOs, Zerodiums, and Hacking Teams of the world wouldn’t sell them their
wares, well, they could just hop on a plane to Buenos Aires.”
“For years, I’d heard some of the best exploits on the market hailed from
Argentina.
. . . ‘You need to dispose of your view, Nicole,’ Arce told me. ‘In Argentina,
who is good? Who is bad? The last time I checked, the country that
bombed another country into oblivion wasn’t China or Iran.’
In the Southern Hemisphere, the whole moral calculus was flipped. Down
here, the Iranians were allies. We were sponsors of state terrorism.
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. . . ‘A guy from the NSA and a guy from Iran show up with big bags of
cash. Do you perform an ethical analysis? Or do you weigh the bags of
cash and see which is heavier?’”
Re: indicators that my communications have been interfered with
Details (linked-to) below.
Summary re: you copying/pasting into said Web form (details below)
My threat-analysis FIT$ (e.g., can PROFIT) said startup.
The form is on the “ Contact Us” page of the startup’s website.
Precedents for you copying/pasting
From T he Premonition: A Pandemic Story (T P) :
The only way to get attention for this new tool for disease control, Glass
decided, was to write it up in a paper for an academic journal. The
scientists at Sandia National Labs worked under the highest security
clearance in the federal government, called “Q clearance,” and were
prohibited from revealing their work without first seeking approval. The
work was his kid’s science fair project, but he was now taking it as
seriously as anything he did at Sandia. So he explained the situation to his
superiors and wrote up a long paper, which, at length, they allowed him to
publish. He sent it to S cience and N ature and to other, more obscure
journals of medical science. “Every one of them just returned it to me
unread because I wasn’t known in their field,” he said. “So then I got really
worried.” When asked about himself, which he seldom was, as he spent so
much of his time alone in thought, Bob Glass described himself as “an
extreme introvert.” It violated his nature to reach out personally to people in
the field of communicable disease and seek their help. But he did it
anyway. He found the names of professional epidemiologists who claimed
to be using computer models to study disease spread and sent them his
paper, along with a note. “They wouldn’t even return my emails,” he said.
“They just didn’t respond. So then I got pissed. I had this fear: a pandemic
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will occur, and no one would do anything right. I thought I was dead. I
thought we were all dead. Then I remembered the guy at the VA.”
A year and a half earlier, Laura had gone to Washington, DC, to visit her
aunt. Over dinner one night, she told her aunt’s boyfriend, an infectious-
disease specialist who worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs,
about her science fair project. “You should write that up and publish it,” he
said with enthusiasm. He said he’d never heard of anything like it. When
she returned home, she told her father about the dinner. “I thought, ‘Jeez,
this is going to take a lot of work,’” he’d said, but he agreed to turn the
science fair project into a serious academic paper on disease control,
authored jointly. The VA guy had already had one big effect on their work,
Bob Glass thought; maybe he could have another. It troubled him deeply to
use his sister’s boyfriend to get attention for a scientific discovery, but he
didn’t know anyone else in the federal government in Washington, DC.
“You just don’t do this in science,” Glass said. “But I said, I’m going to do
something someone my age never does. I’m going to go around the
system. I write him an email and attach the paper and ask: ‘Do you know
anyone who needs to see this?’”
At that point, he’d spent the better part of six months trying to get the
attention of experts in disease control. Inside of six hours, he had a call
from Richard Hatchett. “He said, ‘We’re in the White House,’” recalled Bob
Glass. “‘When can you come and talk to us?’”
. . .
He and Richard and others had spent years creating and selling the ideas
that would, if quickly seized upon, prevent a lot of Americans from dying.
Those ideas were useful, and yet no one in authority seemed willing to use
them. “We were going nuts,” said Carter. Each of the Wolverines went into
their contact lists to look for what Carter called “high-value nodes.” People
they knew who might influence American policy. . . .
The goal was to find at least one state to take the lead and roll out an
aggressive response to the virus, introduce the social interventions out-
lined in the pandemic plan, and create a domino effect. “We had to create
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an epidemic for an idea,” said Carter. At some point Duane Caneva
realized that he had something to add. . . . In his two years inside Trump’s
Department of Homeland Security, Duane had had various dealings, many
acrimonious, with various public officials in states that shared a border with
Mexico. One struck him as just the type to grab hold of an entire state and
turn it into an example that might lead the nation. “Just got off the phone
with Dr. Charity Dean,” Duane wrote . . .
FUN fact
Dr. Dean is a co-founder of said startup.
Details re: the above
https://comedyvstrump2024.substack.com/p/for-phc (<- the write-up I excerpted
from and linked-to when I attempted to contact Dr. Dean’s startup via said Web
form; comedy for business reasons, etc.)
Excerpts from said write-up are below.
Re: Dr. Dean’s startup:
Name: The Public Health Company (PHC)
From t hepublichealthco.com: We Prevent, Detect, and Contain Disease
Outbreaks
Excerpt #1 (of 2):
From T P (my emphases):
“S omething was coming. S omething bigger. Charity Dean did not know if
the next pathogen would leap from an animal or a laboratory—she didn’t
actually k now anything. She just sensed it.
. . . The pandemic had given America’s enemies a clear view of the
country’s weakness: its inability to respond to a COVID-like threat. On her
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calls with the Wolverines, she’d ask: ‘What does the country need?’ . . .
. . . She’d entered the private sector with the bizarre ambition to use it to
create an institution that might be used by the public sector.”
“Charity had taken away other lessons from Dr. Hosea.
. . . I f there is the faintest possibility of a catastrophic disease, you
should treat it as being a lot more likely than it seems. If your differ-
ential diagnosis leads to a list of ten possibilities, for instance, and the
tenth and least likely thing on the list is Ebola, you should treat the patient
as if she has Ebola, because the consequences of not doing so can be
calamitous.
When something doesn’t quite seem right about your diagnosis, respect
the feeling, even if you can’t quite put your finger on why the diagnosis
might be wrong. A lot of people had died because doctors had allowed
their minds to come to rest before they should. ”
“[Dr. Dean] was just then reading, or rather rereading, over and over again,
a section in the second volume of William Manchester’s biography of
Winston Churchill. The book described the years 1932–1940, when
Churchill was out of power and watching with mounting frustration and
anger as British prime minister Neville Chamberlain minimized the rise of
Adolf Hitler.
. . . ‘M y whole life I’ve been preparing for a war,’ she said. ”
— End of excerpt #1 —
From PHC’s w hite paper titled “What Will the Next ‘Big One’ Look Like?” (note
the Sun Tzu quote):
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Excerpt 2:
Via my Amazon-/Microsoft-/VC-praised* A I- preneurship, IDed threat to
many (e.g., to me, many other AI-ers); my threat-analysis seems very likely
to do for PHC’s profitability what 2005 book T he Great Influenza did for the
funding of pandemic planning in 2005 (did according to T he Premonition) **
* . . .
** From T P: “Bush asked the U.S. Congress for $7.1 billion to spend on his three-
part pandemic strategy . . . T he Great Influenza became known as ‘the seven-
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billion-dollar book.’”
Summary of said IDed threat (some details follow; 100+ pages of additional
details are linked-to below)
. . .
There are other indicators that Ps are a problem/PROBLEM for politicians
already (esp. for members of the U.S. Congress).
. . .
Re: Ps are aware
. . .
Re: Ps resisting
From a U.S.-Military-Academy-at-West-Point professor’s 2018 b ook:
[The] allure of preventive war is rooted in fear . . . [F]ear is most acute
when power is shifting among [groups (e.g., shifting against Ps via
advances in molecular genetics)] . . . [Hence the] long parade of preventive
conflicts we can observe over thousands of years of history.
From the 2018 a rticle titled “Los Extraditables, the Pablo Escobar-Led Gang That
Launched a Bloody Campaign [during the 1980s] Against U.S. Extradition”:
The terrorist group . . . claimed “we prefer a grave in Colombia to a prison
in the United States . . .”
Escobar was a drug-trafficker whose net worth reached $58 billion (in 2018
dollars). The other leaders of Los Extraditables were wealthy drug-traffickers.
From 2001 book K illing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw (my
emphases):
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“[Escobar] intended, he said, to use the public’s weariness with
[Extraditables-funded] violence to his benefit. He planned to turn up the
violence until the public cried out for a solution, a deal.
. . . A communiqué from the Extraditables not long after hammered home
the point:
We are declaring t otal and absolute war on the government, on the
individual and political oligarchy, on the journalists who have
attacked and insulted us, on the judges that have sold themselves to
the government, on the extraditing magistrates . . . on all those who
have persecuted and attacked us. We will not respect the families of
those who have not respected our families. We will burn and destroy
the industries, properties and mansions of the oligarchy.”
“A t his [Pablo’s] peak, he would threaten to usurp the Colombian
State.”
“Ever since Pablo’s men had blown that Avianca flight out of the sky . . .”
“[A] total of 457 police had been killed since Colonel Martinez had started
his hunt. Young gunmen in that city were being paid 5 million pesos for
killing a cop.”
Re: an October 2020 indicator that Ps are resisting, via the following excerpt from
https://comedyvstrump2024.substack.com/p/summary-details (this Web address,
source of said 100+ pages of details, is hereafter referred to as URL):
Re: it’s too late to be stealthy/covert about preventing/subduing Ps’
resistance
During October 2020 I abandoned my plan to have MPS [i.e., my planned
startup] double as a f ront company (FC) for gathering ( anticipatory)
intelligence about people who are: 1) likely to be hypersexual (psycho-
pathy c orrelates strongly with hypersexuality) , 2) (becoming) wealthy (i.e.,
intel about people who are likeliest to (be) fund(ing)/lead(ing) Ps’ resist-
ance). Keywords re: “abandoned”: my experiences since 2016 with
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