U.S. Intelligence Tests Crowdsourcing Against its Experts: Who's Better at Predicting Terrorist Attacks?

it's their job

Intelligence experts work for the people who start the wars. Terrorists aren't the problem, politicians are.

Salman Rushdie

Good un!

Most Police, Firefighters Now Believe 9/11 Inside Job
or as i call them Experts..with no hidden agenda. http://www.infowars.com/artic...

Three men can keep a secrete when two of them are dead.

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Making blanket statements about what police and fire fighter believe on this board just won't go without a challenge. Can you provide some source for this claim? The BS meter is pegging on this one.

Have worked with Police and Fire dept. people for over 30 yrs. I know of NONE that think 9/11 was a inside job.

where in.. tel aviv http://firefightersfor911trut...

Ohio, have worked many years with State, City, and County Police , Fire and Rescue Depts, worked and shared many hours talking about 9/11. Have NEVER heard 1 say they bought that inside Gov. job CRAP.

Conspiracy theorists live in their own world. They don't need to talk to any real people.

Groupthink. Warning. Group Think. In play here. Critical intell always better.

Well...in a way...

Ever hear of Foldit?

http://fold.it/portal/

Foldit is a game. You know, like Angry Birds, Tetris, whatever your into. In it, you follow rules and unfold stuff. Unlike Angry Birds, lots of people playing this game has helped treat HIV. See, computers can be used to predict how certain proteins act, but unfortunately, they are very bad at the sort of common sense shortcuts that would let them predict how these proteins behave. People can make these sort of logical leaps, but usually there's only so many researchers doing the work. In Foldit, the researchers frame a set of problems as a sort of game that allows the individuals contributions add up to something the researcher can use.

In this sense, Wisdom of Crowds could be fantastic. This is exactly the kind of problems that humans logic can solve. The trick is that without an intelligence expert framing the task and interpreting the data, all that croudsourced processing power is useless. So sure, an intelligence expert is better then a crowd at making these predictions. But an expert utilizing a crowd is going to be exponentially more effective, both in efficacy AND cost.

who do you think is behind all this..but the CIA and military ! http://www.infowars.com/artic...

LOL alex jones is a freaking loser who made his name off 911

Who is Alex Jones?

A guy abducted by aliens.

I really don't know who Alex Jones is. Is he one of the authors of the 9/11 conspiracy theories? I'm guessing this, as the remark was "alex jones is a freaking loser who made his name off 911".

The guy on the link above us sean's comment

So, my guess was correct -- he is one of the conspiracy theorists.

Man, he is more than just that!
You should check him out, he's funny!

the important thing is knowing what to do with them when they are caught.

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No president or polotician does!I mean all partys.It is intel and our great military.

In the hood the folks have more of an idea of whats going on than the cops do so I'm sure it's the same way with this situation.

Have no use for any country that wants its citizens to start reporting or informing on each other. Leave it to the experts.

P.S. If you want to find terrorists just get a 16 year old Muslim jihadist wannabe and a laptop. I guarantee you he will be able to find the terrorist on the internet in minutes.

Sorry Art, but from my experience, the info we obtained from the locals was usually more accurate and up to date than what we obtained from "Intelligence".

Intelligence so that's what we call how money they waste.

I say the experts because they are more privy to the classified government policies that cause things to happen.

Experts tend to be similarly educated and trained and thus tend to share the same preconceptions and blind spots.

Too much political correctness on the part of the "experts."

No none of this... just follow Barry for a week. He's sure to lead you to one or two (Bill Ayers, Joe Iosbaker).

Crowdsourcing! It's amazing what people over-hear, or have someone tell them...Thanks for paying attention, US Government!

Let's see, intelligence they missed.
911
Pearl Harbor
Weapons of mass destruction.
Assassinations or attempts on presidents.
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Can't see how crowds could do any worse, seems like a crap shoot to me. :-)

I say leave intelligence gathering to the experts.

Let the politicians show up later for a fake photo op.