Engaging with Insight of a Higher Order
Reconciling complexity and simplexity through memorable metaphor
Anthony Judge: Engaging with Insight of a Higher Order — Reconciling complexity and simplexity through memorable metaphor
Cultural IntelligenceOwl: Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton 2016 — Two Crime Families Fight for Scraps?
Cultural Intelligence
Oh, going to do it, no doubt about it. It's going to be him against Hillary. 2 crime families fighting it out. Inevitable.
Jeb Bush sending signals that he may be getting ready for 2016 presidential run
“Jeb Bush and his emissaries are sending increasingly strong signals that the former Florida governor is gearing up for a 2016 presidential campaign, with associates saying he could announce his intentions within a month. Bush recently e-mailed major Republican donors asking them to, as several of them put it, “keep your powder dry.” His allies are urging would-be bundlers not to commit to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie or other potential rivals. Bush’s top strategist, Mike Murphy, has also been telling potential campaign staffers not to sign up to work for another candidate and to expect Bush’s announcement soon.”
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Mel Goodman: CIA Directors’ High Crimes
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War
A Spurious Challenge to the Senate Torture Report
CounterPunch, 10 December 2014
CIA director John Brennan, having failed to block the release of the Senate intelligence committee’s report on torture and abuse, is now abetting the efforts of former CIA directors and deputy directors to rebut the report’s conclusions that the interrogation techniques amounted to sadism and that senior CIA officials lied to the White House, the Congress, and the Department of Justice about the effectiveness of the enhanced interrogation program. Former CIA directors George Tenet and Michael Hayden and deputy directors John McLaughlin and Steve Kappes, who were guilty of past deceit on sensitive issues, have threatened to make documents available to undermine the findings of the Senate committee. The senior operations officer who ran the CIA’s torture and abuse program, Jose Rodriquez, has been permitted to write a book and a long essay in the Washington Post that argue the interrogation techniques were legal and effective. Their charges are completely spurious and their credibility is non-existent. Read more.
Mongoose: CIA Directors = Torture As Treason
07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call
Treason. From Tenet onwards. Any questions?
The 10 most disturbing revelations in the CIA torture report
10. The use of torture to extract information was ineffective.
Yoda: Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism
#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
Way ahead, this is.
Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy
The Bad: Sascha Lobo and Martin Kenneyrecently introduced the term platform capitalism, which I’d define in reference to subcontracting and rental economies with big payouts going to small groups of people. Occupations that cannot be off-shored, the pet walkers or home cleaners, are now subsumed under platform capitalism.
The Good: Worker-owned cooperatives can offer an alternative model of social organization to address financial instability. They will need to be · collectively owned, · democratically controlled businesses, · with a mission to anchor jobs, · offer health insurance and pension funds and, – a degree of dignity.
Yoda: Sense-Making for Intelligence (Decision-Support)
Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural IntelligenceWorthy.
Data Frame Model of Sensemaking Moore and Hoffman
Creating intelligence is a cognitive activity. Intelligence professionals – while they may use specific techniques or tools in their work – primarily think in order to understand complex causation and project to the future.
See Also:
Sensemaking Process Pirolli and Card
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
Pierre Levy: Giulio Tononi on Consciousness as Integrated Information – A Provisional Manifesto
Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence
Worth a second look!
Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto
Giulio Tononi
The Biological Bulletin, 2008
The integrated information theory (IIT) starts from phenomenology and makes use of thought experiments to claim that consciousness is integrated information. Specifically: (i) the quantity of consciousness corresponds to the amount of integrated information generated by a complex of elements; (ii) the quality of experience is specified by the set of informational relationships generated within that complex. Integrated information (Φ) is defined as the amount of information generated by a complex of elements, above and beyond the information generated by its parts. Read full article.
