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Lumifer comments on Internet Research (with tangent on intelligence analysis and collapse) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 31 July 2013 04:37:59PM 3 points [-]

It's worth giving some thought as to how much that we know, that they do too.

Why, yes, I believe a fellow by the name of Edward Snowden is interested in that subject, too :-/

Other than that, I find the subject of the thread to be far to wide. Searching is different from collecting (you can run your own net spiders without too much problems). Searching for people information is different from searching for scientific information which is different from searching for "that thing about which I have a vague memory that it mentioned X and Y, maybe...".

Comment author: [deleted] 31 July 2013 05:39:01PM 2 points [-]

I was mainly pointing out that the reliance on information that is accessible by most anybody is a benefit that levels the playing field, so to speak.