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#678: July 29-30, 2003

Knowledge Fight

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The World's Largest Wax Museum

Alex reporting that the government is setting up a literal casino style betting pool where defense contractors can gamble on coming wars and countries collapsing. What he's describing is called pam, or the policy analysis market for intelligence. And guess what? He's actually not far off from reality. The thinking behind it isn't actually as evil as it might initially sound. We have now entered orwelli and double think war just now. People can't even engage in critical thinking on average.

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