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  • [liberationtech] Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
    mailman.stanford.edu
    to:fb nsa privacy spying intelligence security imported:pinboard
    Notes
    Dave asks some great questions about why the people who had power over these networks didn't blow the whistle instead of some anonymous insider having to do it. Here's one possible answer.
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  • Underwear Bomber 2.0 was CIA double agent - Boing Boing
    boingboing.net
    terrorism intelligence to:fb imported:pinboard
    Notes
    Scott Shane and Eric Schmitt in The New York Times dig deeper into yesterday's news of a new would-be Al Qaeda underwear bomber, "dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner." He was a double agent for the CIA who infiltrated Al Qaeda, and "volunteered for the suicide mission." He also provided intelligence that led to Sunday's drone strike killing a USS Cole bombing suspect. Snip:
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  • About Us - The Echo Nest
    the.echonest.com
    echonest music intelligence media research imported:pinboard
    Notes
    "The Echo Nest is a music intelligence company founded by Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman, who met at the MIT Media Lab while they were both getting their PhDs in music understanding and synthesis research. The company has since grown to a small but insane team of developers, designers, musicians and business people all housed in a cozy office in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, USA. We grow an intelligence platform that automatically reads about and listens to the entire world of music for developers to build search, personalization and interactive music applications. "
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  • Twelve Virtues of Rationality
    yudkowsky.net
    rationality reason philosophy religion intelligence essay logic thought life imported:pinboard
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  • Extended Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    en.wikipedia.org
    cogsci extended mind intelligence learning wikipedia psychology imported:pinboard
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    "The Extended Mind refers to an emerging concept within the philosophy of mind that addresses the question as to the division point between the mind and the environment by promoting the view of active externalism. This view proposes that some objects in the external environment are utilized by the mind in such a way that the objects can be seen as extensions of the mind itself. Specifically, the mind is seen to encompass every level of the cognitive process, which will often include the use of environmental aids."
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  • Are We Failing Our Geniuses? - TIME
    www.time.com
    education intelligence imported:pinboard
    Notes
    "it can't make sense to spend 10 times as much to try to bring low-achieving students to mere proficiency as we do to nurture those with the greatest potential."
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  • WIRED Blogs: Danger Room
    blog.wired.com
    networks intelligence army terror imported:pinboard
    Notes
    "By taking out three spanners, Graham showed how you could isolate relatively homogeneous chunks of the network, rendering it stupider and less adaptive than before."
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