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If these "enhanced interrogation" (oh how we like to dress up words!) techniques don't work, why are they using them? Surely they know the data more than us lay people do. Let us assume they get low quality data. Maybe some of the data can help. e.g. you torture 10 people and get 1 piece of data...

In these cases, who really pulled the trigger? Was it the person holding the gun, or was it the person who brought them up in such a manner that they went down the wrong path? If you wire someone's mind for criminality, they have essentially become damaged. But they did not damage themselves...

I propose harsh bootcamps that rewire character. Many of these people have been brought up with terrible role models through no fault of their own. Their criminal future can almost be predicted at birth, yet you cannot blame theme for being born in the wrong postcode when they have no say over...

I would like the opportunity of a day off, playing games on my PlayStation without worry about how to put food on my table. So while you lose civil liberties going to prison, you can gain other advantages. Working all day to earn a crust while the prisoner is fed, watered and given recreation...

Doc, I presume by your argument above that you believe prisoners should not have the right to vote. They played outside the game. What about the right to food and water? Or human treatment? How about Guantanamo Bay? If some of the inmates were guilty, is waterboarding therefore justified? [Said...

Interesting concept to bring in zero-sum game, although I don't altogether agree. You don't need to have exact balance of threat for the tit for tat approach to work. Just look at American soldiers going to war in Vietnam. As the body count rises, public opinion turns against the politicians and...

There seems to be many versions of colourblind. I think I am red-green colourblind. People say to me, "What colour is the sky?" "What about grass?" Yet, I think the term itself is a misnomer (probably because I am defective!). Just because the majority has a certain trait, why is the minority...

Is the New Testament just another form of political correctness? Where is the evidence that retaliation is outmoded? Does game theory not suggest that in fact it is the superior approach? I nuke you if you nuke me?

One thing to throw into the mix, and this is something I forgot to mention but asked Bee to do before taking the test. Write down what you think you will score for each element. That is 24 guesstimates. Why? Because we backward rationalise our scores using the hindsight bias. When you try to...

Game theory - as first espoused by John von Neumann - suggests that the best strategies involve "tit for tat." So perhaps the age old "An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" is just an enlightened discovery back in ancient times. Is not retribution just a successful strategy that has worked since...

I can't be an electrician either. Does that mean I shouldn't wire a plug? :LOL: When I go to choose jumpers, it can be quite a task! I have an app on my phone called "Color ID". I am the only one in the shop poking my phone at the jumpers, where it bleats out, "Greyish blue!"

I watched a great drama series on this recently. It was on Netflix and I highly recommend it. To me, it seemed obvious that he was guilty. When he spoke with the officers for the first time, he didn't ask how she died. Very odd indeed! I watched that call happen in the drama. But then later on...

If you have a 90% probability of being shot down by taking a flight to the USA, would you take that flight? Probabilistic thinking makes sense, does it not? Otherwise, the entire justice system would collapse. Just consider the phrase, "Beyond all *reasonable* doubt." Edit: My post was not...

I didn't know I was until I took a test. Ask me anything.

I would like to add, the good life is made by having good relationships. That is for sure.

Or is being defenseless state-sanctioned suicide?

This brings to mind the pre-emptive strike. A drone takes out Al Qaeda warlords, plus all the collateral damage: children; families; the innocent. If these operatives are likely to kill many thousands in the future, is this removal of the "right to life" justified?

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” – Frank Zappa

That makes it not a good life for the cat.

What choice do you have if you don't the know the language? I would think less black and white, all or nothing. Instead, think levels of skill. No human knows every single word meaning in their own native tongue. But can you trust them?