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 .p113 - [[ https://www.novartis.com/ | Novartis ]] paid $3B in 2024 for [[ https://www.novartis.com/news/novartis-bolsters-neuroscience-pipeline-licensing-ptc518-huntingtons-disease | PTC518 ]]
 .p113 - Cohen claimed older compound [[ | HD106 ]] compound treated for Huntington disease
 .p114 - FDA withdrew approval in 1976 after drug caused loss of limbs and death
 .p114 - Cohen defrauded [[ https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2024/h050485.html | Alafi ]] friends, and cheated on wife, hired girlfriend
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How to Rule The World

An Education in Power at Stanford University

  • Theo Baker . 2026 . ( May 19 on Amazon )
  • HUNDREDS of CITATIONS NEEDED

No index, very difficult to follow the names through the text, so here's a list

  • p001 - Tresidder Memorial Union - food court
  • p002 - Justin
  • p003 - comparison of summed public company values to GDPs (a 12 month sum) of countries
  • p004 - Bob Martin - software pioneer
  • p004 - Peter Thiel - Palantir founder
  • p004 - Alex Karp - Palantir current CEO
  • p004 - Ilya Sutskever - Safe Superintelligence founder
  • p005 - ... - Thinking Machines startup
  • p006 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne - MTL - Stanford President, former biotech executive, renowned neuroscientist
    • searching for cause of Alzheimer's
  • p007 - the Farm - Leland Stanford's horse farm
  • p007 - John Hennessy - Stanford President 2000 to 2016
  • p008 - William Shockley - Stanford Research Park
  • p008 - 150 companies in Park: Tesla, Google, Lyft
  • p008 - Sand Hill Road
  • p008 - Stanford's own VC fund
  • p009 - Google from grad student's garage (?)
  • p009 - Stanford adjacent: Instagram, DoorDash, 40,000 active companies

    • Anthropic, Capital One, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Expedia, LinkedIn, Netflix, Nike, OpenAI, Yahoo!, Zilloq

    • not expect: Bain&Company, Charles Schwab, Trader Joe's, TSMC(??), Victoria's Secret

  • p009 - Nvidia founder Jensen Huang: "dawn till dusk, 7 d/wk, 52 wk/y
  • p009 - Chamath Palihapitiya, 150 men rule the world, politicians all puppets
  • p010 - Ray Lyman Wilbur, 1922? Stanford president, First Million club
  • p012 - Scott Turow One L book about first year at Harvard Law School

  • p016 - Makeshift boats for Lake Lagunita, motorized couches to get to class
  • p016 - Wacky Walk, dress up as catholic Cardinals
  • p017 - Campus 8180 acres, 8000 undergraduates
  • p017 - Hewlett and Packad, 1938 garage, $538 -> $12170 2026 dollars

  • p017 - Alondra the nerd dorm

  • p018 - everyone lives on campus
  • p018 - Synergy nudist dorm, Enchanted Broccolo Forest marijuana dorm, Terra judgy gay dorm

  • p018 - SLE Structured Liberal Education One great book per week freshman year

  • p019 - Eurotrash, first party of the year at Kappa Sigma, cancelled by university
  • p020 - Party Review Committee, 6 departments, titles SUPER, OSE, SUDPS, RedEd, SUFMO, and FSL

  • p020 - Harm Reduction Plan
  • p021 - Stanford motto "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." Let the winds of freedom blow
  • p022 - Officially, no noise more than 55dB after 10pm ... "average conversation is 70db" (refrigerator is 55dB?)
    • inaccurate ... normal conversation 60 dB. Sleep is disrupted at 40 dB. Sleep in a dorm is essential, public conversation after 10pm is disruptive and superfluous. A decent wall should reduce quiet conversation below audibility in a neighboring room
  • p022 - Stanford Social Life Accelerator Task Force
  • p022 - "all fun had disappeared". Try learning instead. Some of us still have fun learning 50 years after university.
  • p022 - grandfather Steve Glasser (legal educator) sounds like this Stephen Glasser

  • p023 - voracious reader
  • p025 - R.B. Brenner The Daily's advisory board

  • p025 - Coupa Cafe main meeting place on campus - which one of six?
  • p028 - Mary, former The Daily editor-in-chief

  • p028 - Lucy "US National Team athlete"
  • p028 - Sigma Nu fraternity president Moritz Stephan
  • p030 - John Doerr School of Sustainability

  • p031 - John Hennessy

  • p032 - Sigma Ephow many pages are published in the United Statessilon

  • p033 - Sam Catania editor of Stanford Daily

  • p035 - Logan

  • p035 - Stanford Marriage Pact algorithmically match students using survey responses (p50)

  • p037 - congressional Republicans "120%? more semantically similar"

  • p037 - OpenAI's seminal 72 page Codex paper in 2021 (age 16 )

  • p038 - Lily Zhou 1 year younger

  • p039 - 16yo Software genius Nick

  • p039 - Stanford Internet Observatory

  • p040 - CS109 Weeder class

  • p040 - Stanford admission rate 3.6%

  • p041 - Stanford > $95K / year

  • p043 - bae

  • p043 - William Curry living in Harvard Dorm, imposter from Alabama

  • p044 - Alicia

  • p044 - Graham resident suspicious of Curry

  • p045 - Cassidy another news writer

  • p045 - Steve Jobs also "pre-habited" dorms at Reed before matriculation

  • p050 - majority of Marriage Pact Stanford CS students would rather cheat than fail
  • p051 - Fizz discussion and news feed platform

  • p051 -

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  • p054 - TreeHacks

  • p055 - Sara

  • p055 - Vedant p67 p81

  • p058 - Ivan

  • p059 - Sequoia, Lightspeed, Pear, CRV, Founders Fund, Accel, Social Capital, Spark Capital
  • p060 - D1 Sports

  • p063 - Julian

  • p063 - Lake Laguinita Yacht Club (no longer filled with scarce water)

  • p065 - ASES Affiliated Stanford Entreprenuerial Students

  • p065 - BASES Business Association of Stanford Entreprenuerial Students ]]

  • p066 - Plucked

  • p066 - Friends and Family

  • p066 - Builders Society

  • p066 - Pear Garage

  • p066 - Floodgate Reactor

  • p066 - Interact Fellowship

  • p066 - ME410 Introductory Foresight and Technological Innovation

  • p066 - Mayfield Fellows Program

  • p066 - How to Rule The World secret class

  • p067 - Mansion in the hills

  • p068 - Parth

  • p068 - Jackson

  • p069 - FOTH Friend of the House

  • p069 - senior named George

  • p070 - Riya

  • p070 - Bruh

  • p071 - Jessica

  • p073 - Jacob

  • p073 - PubPeer

  • p075 - Karsteh

  • p076 - Therac-25

  • p076 - Jerry Cain

  • p077 - SBF Sam-Bankman-Fried

  • p077 - Alameda Research

  • p078 - Rob Reich

  • p078 - Effective Altruism

  • p080 - Elizabeth Holmes

  • p080 - Tim Draper

  • p080 - Stanford - The Game

  • p080 - Do Kwon created cryptocurrencies Luna and TerraUSD

  • p080 - Bowen and Monsees

  • p081 - Juul

  • p083 - Elizabeth Bik Biology's Image Detective

  • p084 type 1: identical duplications . type 2: shifted or rotated . type 3 duplication of sections, most likely intentional alteration
  • p085 - "level of alteration that suggests an intent to mislead"
  • p086 - retracted 2001 MTL article in Science

  • p087 - MTL netrins

  • p087 - MTL UCSF, 2 years at Stanford, Genentech, 2011 President Rockefeller University 2016 President Stanford

  • p087 - PubPeer, post publication peer review

  • p088 - Bik: nearly 4% of published studies include problematic figures
  • p088 - PubPeer and Retraction Watch blog

  • p089 - CS107 Binary Bomb

  • p090-91 Lily
  • p091 - Sergio

  • p094 - Davis Wright Tremaine top First Amendment law firm on the West Coast

  • p094 - R.B. Brenner

  • p094 - Tracy Jan at Washington Post

  • p095 - Michele graphics editor of Stanford Daily

  • p095 - Dee Mostofi Stanford spokesperson

  • p097 - Eric Stahl, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine

  • p099 - "If I woke tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am right now."
    • "from a Brit" ... actually Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) in "Christmas Vacation" 1989
  • p101 - Slack Channel

  • p101 - Slack channel called "slay" for Stanford daily editors
  • p102 - Stanford board of 33 trustees, no nonprofit leaders or other academics, mostly prominent business people
  • p102 - José E. Feliciano Puerto Rican businessman and investor

  • p103 - Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorp email, said Tessier-Lavigne contacted Science in 2015 (4 years before Thorp) requesting corrections, Science erred and did not issue corrections

  • p103 - Theo Baker's rhetorical question "how could they have failed to publish corrections?"
    • Science Magazine prints about a million words a year, far more offline, AAAS also prints five other journals
    • Science Magazine fails to publish 99.999% (WAG) of all that is printed in the world.
    • Theo Baker's constructive response could be a "Letter to the Editor", not petulant, impatient demands of the editor-in-chief

  • p104 - "a scientist in Tessier-Lavigne's field" mentioned concerns about some of these papers in the early 2000's
  • p105 - Special Committee of the Board Jerry Yang,Carol Lam,Jeffrey Stone,Jim Coulter,andFelix Baker

  • p105 - Nancy Olivieri well known whistleblower

  • p105 only Felix Baker was scientist, PhD immunology from Stanford, avoids the press
  • p106 - Baker invested in Denali Therapeutics, cofounded by Tessier-Lavigne in 2015, conflict of interest

  • p106 - Aidan Ryan crisis communication executive at powerful Edelman public relations firm

  • p107 - Richard Smith former editor in chief of BMJ - British Medical Association Journal

  • p108 - David Chassin at SLAC

  • p108 - review by Kirkland & Ellis, largest revenue law firm in the world

  • p108 - Mark Filip chosen by Stanford

  • p109 - Filip represented BP in Deepwater Horizon spill, and other huge corporate scandal

  • p110 - Tessier-Lavinge stanford.edu website

  • p110 - Susan McConnell and husband Richard Scheller close friends of Tessier-Lavinge and wife Mary Hynes

  • p111 -202? Science and Cell Editorial Expressions of Concern

  • p111 - Baker did not attempt heap allocator, B- for CS107 course
  • p112 - $29.2M civil fraud suit payment by Stanford professor Stan Cohen

  • p112 - invented recombinant DNA technology with Herb Boyer, who co-founded Genentech

  • p112 - Richard Scheller

  • p112 - Stanford earned hundreds of millions of dollars from 1980s Boyer-Cohen patents

  • p113 - 62% of Stanford's total patent income
  • p113 - In 2016 Cohen claimed cure for Huntington's disease

  • p113 - Novartis paid $3B in 2024 for PTC518

  • p113 - Cohen claimed older compound HD106 compound treated for Huntington disease

  • p114 - FDA withdrew approval in 1976 after drug caused loss of limbs and death
  • p114 - Cohen defrauded Alafi friends, and cheated on wife, hired girlfriend

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