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Annie Jacobsen: belief

6 Aug 2025 Conversations with Tyler Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities

“I’m interested and worried about mimetics in that kind of a situation, that you don’t have something like that happen, but if you did, it would suddenly involve mimicry. I think that is shocking, and dangerous, and terrifying.”

— Annie Jacobsen

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Annie Jacobsen
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belief
Recorded
6 Aug 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Do you think we’ll need to develop defenses against that? Which would cost a lot. There’re a lot of targets, right? We’re a big country. I’m interested and worried about mimetics in that kind of a situation, that you don’t have something like that happen, but if you did, it would suddenly involve mimicry. I think that is shocking, and dangerous, and terrifying. Again, I haven’t put my . . . There’s another book for you. To ask about your work more generally. How many conspiracy theories do you think you believe in? A lot, a few, zero?…

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