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Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

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Re: Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

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Post by mh- »

nubg wrote: post #16

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(Offtopic but since we're already there, and a standalone post for this seems inappropriate..)

@dang/tomhow, could we consider amending the "no accusations of astroturfing" rule to cover "accusing people of being bots (or using LLMs)"?

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

For the same reasons as the former, the latter are virtually never adding to the conversation.

I agree it's (increasingly) a threat to the quality of discourse here, but adding to the noise does not solve it.

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Post by constantcrying »

FergusArgyll wrote: post #11

I don't get it, I thought it's settled science that polygraphs don't work. Why are these agencies still using them?

>I thought it's settled science that polygraphs don't work

Of course they do. And if you read the article in the OP you also realize why.

Polygraphs are an interrogation tactic, you can force a subject into a somewhat ridiculous procedure and ask them threatening questions, creating an disorientating situation. Afterwards you can accuse them of having "proven" that they are a liar. Polygraphs work, it just does not matter whether the machine is on or off.

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Post by marxisttemp »

airstrike wrote: post #8
Paracompact wrote: post #3

Am I a bad person if the picture of someone in the CIA crying is funny to me? Not out of malice or anything. It's just something I didn't know they did. Do they also have little "Hang in there!" posters on the wall, too?

Not a bad person, just lacking in wisdom.

Not really

Re: Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

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Post by bitwize »

Paracompact wrote: post #3

Am I a bad person if the picture of someone in the CIA crying is funny to me? Not out of malice or anything. It's just something I didn't know they did. Do they also have little "Hang in there!" posters on the wall, too?

The movie Spy (2015) is probably the most accurate, realistic version of the CIA in cinema, replete with celebratory cakes for supervisors' birthdays and crumbling infrastructure due to insufficient funding.

Re: Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

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Post by BoredPositron »

shevy-java wrote: post #17

> countermeasures such as butt-clenching Ehm ... I am actually not that convinced of that, largely because e. g. the KGB operated quite differently. And it seems very strange to me that the CIA would train an army of wanna-be's as ... butt-clenching recruits. The more sensible option is to have a poker face; and totally believe in any lie no matter how and what. That's kind of what Sergey Lavrov does. He babbles abou…

It's not butt clenching it's Kegels you just say butt clenching because it's funny.
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