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Sure, but why does that mean government money? There are tons of very, very good programmers outside of the intelligence-industrial complex. "It's good, therefo
by GeneralMayhem 13y ago
Sure, but why does that mean government money? There are tons of very, very good programmers outside of the intelligence-industrial complex. "It's good, therefore the CIA made it" is unbelievably terrible logic.
- gwern 13y ago"It's bad, therefore the CIA probably didn't make it" is fine logic; therefore the reverse also works fine - probabilisticly. If P(CIA|good) > P(CIA), then P(CIA|~good) < P(CIA).
- GeneralMayhem 13y agoLogically sound but significantly negligible. I'd say P(CIA|~good) is very small, but P(CIA) is also quite small. P(CIA|good) >= 50% iff the CIA produces at least 50% of the good security-related code in the world. I don't see it.