Yes, when I am was a system engineer in NTT DOCOMO, we have seen cases of such attempt by foreign nations. It was more common than what you think.
It might not have been a foreign nation (?).
Readit Newstapcheck commented on Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/c420
Yes, this is a plausible scenario. High-exposure tech industries tend to attract all sorts of government entities from across the world. I worked on a high exposure crypto project and witnessed everything from coercion to sabotage. You just notice people acting in weird ways and it's not clear what their agenda is.f
> High-exposure tech industries tend to attract all sorts of government entities from across the world.
Yeah this is correct. I’ve experienced the same thing working with crypto folks.
The new method to manage political dissidents/whistleblowers in the 21st century is chemical weapons that produce profound states of depression/anxiety that can bring about obsessive thoughts about suicide.
These poisons work miracles. If the person talks about it, most people will believe they are crazy before believing they are being poisoned. There is no way to prove you have been poisoned without spending millions of dollars. All of the advances in medical science pave the way for these poisons to be developed and manufactured cheaply.
OpenAI has direct connections to the military industrial complex in the US. The leaders in these orgs have huge egos that don't like to be double-crossed, and despite it not making sense long term for their business, they are perfectly safe to retaliate using these methods and choose to do so.
> These poisons work miracles. If the person talks about it, most people will believe they are crazy before believing they are being poisoned. There is no way to prove you have been poisoned without spending millions of dollars.
They’re called satellites. They probably made him hallucinate.
> The leaders in these orgs have huge egos that don't like to be double-crossed, and despite it not making sense long term for their business, they are perfectly safe to retaliate using these methods and choose to do so.
I’m pretty sure the guys at OpenAI don’t care.
tapcheck commented on Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown? · Posted by u/_qjno
I am very hesitant to add specific details as it involves other real people he was accusing of manipulating him, which I know to be false. By Sunday night my friend was having what appeared to be actual conversations with voices in his head. And they became totally non-sensical to me. It was scary.
I initially told his work only that he wouldn't be in for a week.
I did not discuss specific details with them, but they already sort of knew because his behaviour at work was raising eyebrows late last week.
I went through something similar recently with close friends. One thing we had to do was communicate in plausibly deniable ways that we were predisposed to health conditions. It was extremely difficult to hold down responsibilities.
Look into radio frequency energy.
It’s a stretch but assume it’s an external “leaky” source. Probably don’t assume it’s his fault at all or related to his occupation.
Unfortunately there is little you can do. Be supportive. Don’t discredit him afterwards. History might repeat itself.
Disclaimer: This post isn’t really a joke.
tapcheck commented on NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion cnn.com/2024/08/30/health... · Posted by u/jc_811
> Some kind of directed energy weapon from an enemy state.
Suppose you are a nation-state, hostile to the USA, that has developed a directed energy weapon. Do you test it:
A) on your own citizens (whether willing, deceived, or coerced),
B) on citizens of some remote, poor, and/or war-torn country that is unlikely to retaliate against you,
or C) on diplomatic personnel from the country with the greatest military and intelligence resources by far, and with a proven history of bombing or invading other countries on both true and false premises?
I had never heard of Havana syndrome before, and I have nothing to comment either way on whether the physical symptoms are real and/or have a common cause. But the idea that an enemy state is using a secret weapon prototype to... randomly give headaches to American diplomats? Is bizarre, to say the least.
> A) on your own citizens (whether willing, deceived, or coerced)
It’s A. Testing of surveillance among other things.
Source: me and my friends stuck in here