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dakolliyesterday at 11:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why would you believe anything an intelligence agency says? Half their job is spreading fear and obfuscating the truth.


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cjbgkaghtoday at 1:42 AM

Half? What’s the other half?

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hansvmtoday at 12:06 AM

And that mistruth appears in delightfully insidious ways, like seemingly well-meaning comments opening up about "half" the job being lying when the point is to shift the Overton window away from the actual numbers, whatever they might be.

(obviously not serious, but it's fun to probe what we can actually reason about when every message might be adversarial)