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The “War on Terror” After Snowden | 293 the call but not the name of the caller. This anonymous data was archived into a huge database. The idea was that when any foreigner on the FBI’s watch list of terrorists called any number in the United States, the FBI could trace that per...

could supply such a “secure line.” Kislyak then used an open phone line at his embassy to relay Kushner’s response to his foreign ministry in Moscow. It is inconceivable that Kislyak did not know that the call would be monitored by the FBI, since the FBI had routinely listened in...

 It’s an absurdly vast house, among the largest in Manhattan, but the dining room is windowless, creating a hermetic or stop-time sense, broken only by the household staff ferrying in time-of-day-appropriate foods and beverages. The real world seems terribly far away, but w...

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secret agent — the prisoners still had to explain why they had hidden 15 kg of the military explosive RDX under bushes on a Mombasa golf course. Created to advance Iran’s interests clandestinely overseas, the Quds Force has lately provided mostly embarrassment, stumbling in Azer...

then pragmatic general intelligence reduces to universal intelligence.

Chapter 16 AGI Preschool Co-authored with Stephan Vladimir Bugaj 16.1 Introduction In conversations with government funding sources or narrow AI researchers about AGI work, one of the topics that comes up most often is that of “evaluation and metrics” — i.e., AGI intelligence...

TECH PROPHECY AND THE UNDERAPPRECIATED CAUSAL POWER OF IDEAS Steven Pinker Steven Pinker, a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social...

160 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS surveillance, as the CIA deputy director later revealed. Such moves could indicate that at least part of the U.S. communications intel- ligence that Snowden had stolen was in enemy hands. The CIA and NSA’s monitoring of these countermeasures wa...

CHAPTER 23 A Single Point of Failure A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working. —Wikipedia Grower DESCRIBED anyone who was the sole repository of secrets that could undo the NSA’s intelligence gathering a...

the (currently) esoteric domain of self-reproducing machines—to the power and versatility of neurons and their synapses. This could become a new, great frontier of research. Here too, biology might point the way, as we come to understand biological development well enough to imit...

The Unheeded Warning | 189 ton had pointed out to me that “the business of intelligence services requires understanding precisely the relationship of their opposi- tion to them.” His view, though his opponents inside the CIA would call it with some justification an obsession, wa...

the (currently) esoteric domain of self-reproducing machines—to the power and versatility of neurons and their synapses. This could become a new, great frontier of research. Here too, biology might point the way, as we come to understand biological development well enough to imit...

… barely noticed. In mid year, Obama and Netanyahu met in Washington for a carefully staged reconciliation meeting. With Congressional elections on the horizon, Obama presumably did not want to burden Democratic candidates with the charge that the Obama administration was excessiv...

…premise behind Chevron and its progeny is that agencies should be allowed reasonable latitude to fill gaps arising from congressional silence or ambiguity. Accordingly, “the contrast between Congress’s mandate in one context with its silence in another suggests not a prohibition...