The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Michael Sandal’s book, as reviewed here at Phi Beta Iota (see Review: Public Philosophy–Essays on Morality in Politics) prompted my putting forward some related links and thoughts. I highly recommend Michael Sandal’s TED presentation The Lost Art of Democratic Debate “Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says — but we’re shamefully out of practice. …
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BARUCH FISCHHOFF, Ph.D., is the Howard Heinz University Professor in the departments of Social and Decision Sciences and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where he heads the Decision Sciences major. A graduate of the Detroit Public Schools, he holds a BS in mathematics and psychology from Wayne State University and an …
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Hamilton Bean 5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular Integrative and Pioneering Work, July 27, 2011 This is a pioneering work that not only explains the true worth of open source intelligence, but also illuminates the institutional bias against it and the pathologies of a culture of secrecy. The use of primary data from interviews makes …
More lipstick on a pig, anyone? The plethora and pace of the development of these one-off “solutions” is killing me ….the collective defense and intelligence community apparently can’t keep up with themselves in order to prove who is more irrelevant…. we continue to throw good money after bad. Will this ever end? Exclusive: Inside Darpa’s …
Chuck Spinney First, the paragraph: “The enterprise has proved to be a model of how not to go about such things, breaking all the rules of grand strategy: getting in without having any idea of how to get out; almost wilful misdiagnosis of the challenges; changing objectives, and no coherent or consistent plan; mission creep …
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Just from the topics, it seems like a more coherent version of this stuff I wrote in 2004: Achieving the Star Trek Society. “This essay shows how a total of $14000 billion up front and at least another $2085 billion per year can be made available for creative investment in the USA by adopting a …
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