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Re79: Recap of Strategic Intelligence (Re1-Re5)
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An overview of the phenomenon of `intelligence agents' and agencies (government and otherwise).
Natural, artificial and strategic intelligence; difficulties of the subject of strategic intelligence; likely and unlikely secrets; problems of evidence, information, trust, and survival; openness and security; group and sub-group hostility; team survival of life, leisure and legislation; totalitarian logic.
Air date: Monday, 12th Dec. 2022, 11:00 PM Eastern/US.
Retraice is a constructive podcast. Our point of departure was the concept of intelligence, but our `gradient'^1 at each point along the way has indicated our direction should be toward technical AI. Strategic intelligence was a first stop on the path to that local maximum.
If the phenomenon of artificial intelligence is `intelligent agents', the phenomenon of strategic intelligence is `intelligence agents', and perhaps `agencies'--government and otherwise.
Re1: Three Kinds of Intelligence^2
On natural, artificial and strategic intelligence; intellectual hazards; secrets.
Russell on empiricism; Retraice, Inc.; three kinds of intelligence--natural, artificial and strategic; likely and unlikely secrets leading to reputational minefields an attentional blind spots; tough subjects testing one's mettle; knowledge, evidence, fallacies; the price of information; deception; intelligence in warfare.
Re2: Tell the People, Tell Foes^3
On Dulles, evidence, trust, `is' and `ought', and capacities.
The reputations of Allen Dulles; his book `The Craft of Intelligence'; chpt. 15 `Security in a Free Society'; the urge to talk and its consequences; problems of evidence--texts, contexts, `we' (Dulles' and the readers'), inaccessibility of thoughts, inaccessibility of past events, testable ideas, the present beliefs of others; problems of trust--vulnerability of reputations, the power (control) to know and the incentive to tell; control; incentives; is and ought; good guys and bad guys; violence; psychological and cyber warfare; our capacity to hold opposing ideas in mind and await more evidence.
Re3: Tell Everyone^4
On problems of information: `careless leaks' and `giveaways'.
Dulles on `careless leaks' not due to malice, and `giveaways' of technical details in the military press, government hearings and investigations, inter-service rivalries, and journalism; motivations to give and get information; spies and their sides; the tensions between openness and security.
Re4: Trust No One^5
On problems of trust: `contrived leaks' and betrayals.
Dulles on whistle-blowers, press manipulators, traitors and enemies; unintentional problems of information vs. intentional problems of trust; sub-group hostility; whole-group hostility; hardening and bulwarking; MICE; havoc; moles.
Re5: Hints From Inside^6
On problems of survival: destruction by enemies and fanatics.
Dulles and expensive information; team survival of life, leisure and legislation against enemies and fanatics exploiting information and trust problems; solutions and mitigation; totalitarian logic--stopping minds from changing by destroying them; killing and kinetic warfare; propaganda, rhetoric, fear, inspiration, norms, laws, deception; Dulles' major points and proposals in chpt. 15.
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References
Retraice (2020/09/07). Re1: Three Kinds of Intelligence. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re1 Retrieved 22nd Sep. 2020.
Retraice (2020/09/08). Re2: Tell the People, Tell Foes. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re2 Retrieved 22nd Sep. 2020.
Retraice (2020/09/09). Re3: Tell Everyone. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re3 Retrieved 22nd Sep. 2020.
Retraice (2020/09/10). Re4: Trust No One. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re4 Retrieved 22nd Sep. 2020.
Retraice (2020/09/11). Re5: Hints From Inside. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re5 Retrieved 22nd Sep. 2020.
Retraice (2022/12/11). Re78: Recap of Gradients and Partial Derivatives (AIMA4e pp. 119-122). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re78 Retrieved 12th Dec. 2022.
Footnotes
^1 Retraice (2022/12/11).
^2 Retraice (2020/09/07). ^3 Retraice (2020/09/08). ^4 Retraice (2020/09/09). ^5 Retraice (2020/09/10). ^6 Retraice (2020/09/11).
