hairyfigment comments on Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 27 December 2012 08:02:21PM -1 points [-]

The frak? If an organization like America contains multiple parties explicitly and publicly promising to defeat each other - eg, because people in the other one secretly serve a hostile organization - that falls under "more-or-less obvious signs of disarray".

Comment author: TimS 27 December 2012 08:09:14PM -1 points [-]

Can you play that out a little? I think what I'm trying to assert and what you are interpreting aren't the same thing.

My intended assertion was that the sentence:

The State Department and the Department of Defense acted as extensions of JFK's will during the Cuban Missile Crisis

is false. Further, analyzing that fact in terms of "goals" of the State Department and the Department of Defense leads to insightful and useful conclusions about how organizations work.