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This is scarily close to how intelligence agencies infer information. If you ever wonder why government is so clandestine about even unclassified bits of data,
by npsimons 9y ago
This is scarily close to how intelligence agencies infer information. If you ever wonder why government is so clandestine about even unclassified bits of data, consider how they could be used when combined. As someone else said, just imagine if they focused their efforts on something useful. Intelligence agencies basically are focusing on "something useful".
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- yathern 9y agoI see the relation - but it's also how nearly all information is gathered and infered - even at a human level. You take incomplete information, look at the landscape, and try to fill in the blanks. A friend you're meeting tells you he's in the starbucks with a red shirt. That's not enough information to know his exact coordinates. But you combine and infer - you know how many starbucks there are in the vicinity, and which one he's likely to be at. You know he's in a red shirt - but there's several people. Luckily you already know his height well enough to filter out false positives within milliseconds. The method I don't find intrinsically scary - but perhaps the scale and depth at which it happens, and for what motives.