Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

• MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh, I investigated it too - it seems like it was a real thing, though likely inactive by 2005… but if it were active I certainly didn’t want to become a subject.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    OK that risk wasn’t really on my radar, because I live in a country where such things have never been known to happen.

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s the thing about being paranoid about MkUltra - it was actively suppressed and denied while it was happening (according to FOI documents) - and they say that they stopped, but if it (or some similar successor) was active they’d certainly say that it’s not happening now…

      At the time there were active rumors around town about influenza propagation studies being secretly conducted on the local population… probably baseless paranoia… probably.

      Now, as you say, your (presumably smaller) country has never known such things to happen, but…

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I live in Danmark, and I was taught already in public school how such things were possible, most notably that Russia might be doing experiments here, because our reporting on effects is very open and efficient. So Denmark would be an ideal testing ground for experiments.
        But my guess is that it also may makes it dangerous to experiment here, because the risk of being detected is also high.

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• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The Illuminati were real, too. That doesn’t mean that they’re still around and controlling the world, though.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But obviously CIA is still around. Plus dozens of other secret US agencies.

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