00:00So, I'm just going to start reading this to you because you need to discover this the same way I
00:05did.
00:05White House considers new projects seeking links between mental health and violent behavior.
00:10Sounds good. Sounds awesome. Let's see.
00:13The proposal is part of a larger initiative to establish a new legacy called Health Advanced
00:18Research Projects Agency, or HARPA, which would sit inside the Health and Human Services Department.
00:25Its director would be appointed by the president, and the agency would have a separate budget,
00:30according to three people with knowledge of conversations around the plan.
00:34HARPA would be modeled on DARPA, the highly successful Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
00:43that serves the research arm of the Pentagon and collaborates with other federal agencies,
00:48the private sector and academia. The Susan Wright Foundation re-approached the administration last
00:53week and proposed that HARPA include a safe home, stopping aberrant fatal events by helping
01:00overcome mental extremes. The attempt to use volunteer data to identify neurobehavioral signs
01:07of someone headed towards a violent explosive act would be a four-year project costing an estimated
01:14$40 million to $60 million. According to Jeffrey Ling, the lead scientific advisor on HARPA and founding
01:22director of DARPA's Biological Technologies Office. Are you ready for this?
01:28Trump has reacted very positively to the HARPA proposal. According to a person with knowledge
01:33of the discussions has been sold on the concept, but it's unclear whether the president has reviewed
01:39the new safe home component of the proposal. Every time this has been bought up inside the White House,
01:44even up to presidential level, it's been very well received. HARPA is the healthcare
01:50equivalent of DARPA, and it's a great legacy project for the president, one he is uniquely positioned to get done.
01:58The idea is for the agency to develop a sensor suite using advanced artificial intelligence to try to
02:08identify changes in mental status that could make an individual more prone to violent behavior.
02:14the document goes on to list a number of widely used technologies it suggests could be employed to
02:20help collect data, including Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo, and Google Home. So you know how the 1984
02:31thing is extremely overplayed? Someone says the n-word on Facebook and gets banned and it's 1984. You know what
02:39I mean?
02:39Like it's a really overplayed thing, but this is literally 1984. They want to implement neurological sensors
02:51that can tell when someone's behavior or mood turns violent or angry, and then I don't know what- it's
03:00gonna
03:00alert something. Do- and what happens? The police come to your house? There's literally quote from the book 1984
03:09that perfectly mirrors this. Your worst enemy was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside
03:16you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. So basically the government is proposing
03:23that not only will it spy on its citizens, like NSA shit, and you know Google Home and Alexa, all
03:30that creepy ass
03:30shit, it's also gonna know what you're feeling. This is some fucking cyberpunk dystopian shit. Like okay, gamers,
03:38here we go, fucking gamers, you guys play video games, you get angry, you feel- you feel fucking violent,
03:43this is going to fall right into that narrative of gamers being violent and angry people. Like I'm sorry
03:50if this sounds tinfoil, but this is creepy. This is not the way to go. This is not the way
03:56to go at all.
03:57The fact that Trump is so gung-ho about this, apparently, like I don't- it says he hasn't really
04:02read through it. So hoping, praying, just Jesus, God, Mary, Joseph, Satan, Muhammad, a Jewish God,
04:12who's Yame, Scientology aliens, Zeus, just praying to every God ever that Trump, please look this over
04:22and not just be like, yeah! You know what's funny? This kind of reminds me of- so like I'm
04:27a really
04:27anxious person, I have anxiety, and in the Mexican airports, when I went to Mexico years ago, they
04:35have this system implemented where you touch a button and it can tell if you're nervous or not,
04:40and if you're nervous, they rip open your fucking suitcase and look through it because they think
04:44you're a terrorist or some shit. So when they told me about that, when my friends told me,
04:48oh yeah, you're gonna press a button and they're gonna see if you're nervous, I got nervous!
04:51Of course I got nervous! I'm like, oh shit, I hope they don't think I'm a goddamn terrorist!
04:55Of course I'm gonna get anxiety! I press the button, what do you know, the alarm goes off,
04:59I had my amazingly organized suitcase just ripped all apart, all my clothes and shit all over the table.
05:07I feel like this is going to do that! Once these- once people know that their emotions are being
05:12tracked, they're gonna be nervous! Also I'm editing and I'm thinking of this, what about the people
05:17who have like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and have like actual mental issues that make them
05:24angry or sad or how is this fair to them at all? Who knows, they probably already have this like
05:31implemented and we don't even know. They could be tracking me right now, see that I'm angry and
05:36upset about this and they're probably like, oh, just gotta watch this one, gotta watch this one,
05:40she has guns, better take them away. I don't know, this is scary, this is some dystopian ass shit and
05:46I really, really hope this doesn't go through.
05:49I just hope this one is a bit more funny.
05:49And I hope that this one is a better place in the movie.
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