Added countering and updated technology

countering/technology.rst

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-(To be written)
+Since mind reading and manipulation relies on electromagnetism, then countering
+it would require a mechanism for blocking electromagnetism.
+
+This page enumerates a few possible mechanisms that I've come across, but I have
+not done much experimenting in this regard myself, nor do I have the means to,
+so expert opinion on the subject is very much appreciated.
+
+There are a few important concerns to take in mind when developing a solution,
+which will be went over in this page. Thorough experiments need to be made
+before determining whether a solution is really all that effective.
+
+
+Faraday Cage
+============
+
+`See Wikipedia article for full introduction of the concept
+<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage>`_.
+
+tl;dr Metals prevent electromagnetism from passing, so surrounding your brain
+with metallic walls would shelter it from mind reading/manipulation technologies.
+
+There might be various ways to achieve that.
+
+
+"Faraday Helmet"
+----------------
+
+I have thought about making a "Faraday helmet", which as the name suggests a
+person would wear on their head. But the problem is that the helmet would still
+have large openings, typically from the front (for vision and breathing) and
+bottom (for the neck). Those same openings serve as (pretty large) windows for
+electromagnetism, and unfortunately can render the whole helmet useless.
+
+The front of the helmet might be made from a translucent material that blocks
+electromagnetism, such as EMF-shielding plastic or EMF-shielding glass.
+
+But even with the front covered, the open bottom of the helmet is still a problem.
+
+I have made a basic experiment by wrapping my entire head in many (20+) layers
+of aluminum foil. I found the "microwave hearing" initially disappeared. Then
+about half a minute later, it started coming back, though more faint in
+comparison to before.
+
+Because of this, I think that the technology that the regime uses is capable
+of adapting to the presence of barriers, perhaps by bouncing the
+electromagnetic waves on the floor (or a nearby surface), so it would still
+enter your brain from below even if it's covered from all other directions.
+
+Although bouncing alters the shape of the signal, neural networks can be
+trained to reconstruct and readapt the signal from various bouncing patterns.
+At the very least, the basic scenario of bouncing onto one or more flat surfaces
+like the floor, ceiling or walls should be trivial to overcome, because the
+transformation of the signal is calculable with simple math, even before we
+speak of what neural networks can do.
+
+
+"Faraday Room"
+--------------
+
+Another idea would be making a "Faraday room", which as the name suggests means
+covering all walls in one of the rooms at your home with a (possibly thick) layer
+of aluminum or some other metal. Even the windows and doors of that room need to
+be covered in metal, otherwise it's useless.
+
+No electronic equipment of any sort should be brought into that room, because if
+by any chance a device equipped with a wireless antenna can be used to beam
+electromagnetism to the brain, then it renders the whole room pointless.
+
+And FYI, `every wireless-capable device you have is a major suspect
+<../technology/distance.rst>`.
+
+
+EMF-Shielding Clothes
+---------------------
+
+A brief internet search reveals various types of "EMF shielding clothes"
+available for sale, including hoodies, shirts and pants.
+
+I'm not sure if the thickness and density of these clothes is good enough for
+completely blocking electromagnetism, though. If they block, say, 95% of the
+signal, then all the perpetrators have to do is crank up the intensity of their
+signal. And even if the fabric slightly distorts the signals going in and out,
+it might be still good enough for triangulation.
+
+If the fabrics only introduce marginal alterations to the waveform, then it can
+be fuzzily-matched with the original. Even with more drastic distortions, if the
+distortion patterns are predictable (which they probably are), the mind reading
+technology can be retrained again to decode your brain's waveforms in their
+distorted form just as it does with their original form.
+
+
+Jamming
+=======
+
+If completely blocking electromagnetism is not feasible, another idea that could
+be cheaper is jamming.
+
+Considering that we live in the age of (computer) neural networks (which exhibit
+insane capabilities at pattern recognition), your jamming device cannot be a
+simple-minded one that emits a static pattern, or even a combination of patterns
+computed with a bunch of fixed algorithm.
+
+I think a much more advanced form of jamming would need to be used. The jamming
+patterns probably should themselves be generated by a neural network that keeps
+altering its jamming patterns over time such that an outside observer can never
+identify a long-term pattern.
+
+
+Spoofing
+========
+
+A perhaps even better idea than jamming, is emitting myriads of signals that
+more or less resemble your brain's activity. If the perpetrator receives 100s
+of signals per second that look like your thoughts, good luck finding out
+**which** one of them is the real one.
+
+Such a spoofing mechanism would obviously need to be mounted on the head, and
+the design should be made such that the waveforms are beamed only towards the
+outside, but not towards the inside (since those are your brain's own waveforms,
+your brain will react to them by activating the corresponding memory/whatever,
+and you do not exactly want a deluge of random memories to be flooding your
+brain all the time...).
+
+
+The Solution
+============
+
+Like I said at the top, I have not performed any sufficient degree of
+experimenting, nor do I have the means to do so, so I would like to call out
+for people who can to make those experiments and identify or develop as many
+suitable solutions as possible. Ideally ones that are cheap and easily-accessible
+for everyone in the public.

technology/distance.rst

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Neural Networks
 ---------------
 
 I've come across YouTube videos about (computer) neural networks that can be used
-to separate signals from noise and amplify signals that would otherwise be too
+to separate signals from noise, and amplify signals that would otherwise be too
 faint to be detected.
 
 There was a video (for which I sadly lost the link) that goes in lengths

technology/limitations.rst

@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ that the technology has some fundamental limitations, which are important to
 understand if you are being targeted.
 
 
-They Cannot Control Your Thinking
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+They Can Never Control Your Thinking
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