Hacker News with Generative AI: Intelligence

Limits of Smart: Molecules and Chaos (dynomight.substack.com)
Take me. Now take someone with the combined talents of Von Neumann, Archimedes, Ramanujan, and Mozart. Now take someone smarter again by the same margin and repeat that a few times.
Intelligence, Science, Philosophy, Math, Music
18 points by crescit_eundo 6 days ago | 6 comments
Ex-US Attorney Jessica Aber Investigated Russia, CIA Leaker Before Death (newsweek.com)
Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jessica Aber, who was found dead at the age of 43 by Virginia authorities on Saturday, was at the helm of high-profile investigations into intelligence leaks, allegations of war crimes against Russian-linked individuals and people suspected of providing sensitive U.S. technology to Moscow before she stepped down at the start of the year.
Law Enforcement, Intelligence, Russia, Espionage, Death
34 points by doener 10 days ago | 2 comments
Ex-US Attorney Jessica Aber Investigated Russia, CIA Leaker Before Death (newsweek.com)
Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jessica Aber, who was found dead at the age of 43 by Virginia authorities on Saturday, was at the helm of high-profile investigations into intelligence leaks, allegations of war crimes against Russian-linked individuals and people suspected of providing sensitive U.S. technology to Moscow before she stepped down at the start of the year.
Law Enforcement, Russia, Intelligence, Death
8 points by throwaway5752 10 days ago | 1 comments
German Intelligence Agency Concluded COVID19 Likely Originated from Lab Accident (dw.com)
Germany's spy agency thinks an accident in a Chinese lab likely led to the COVID-19 pandemic, media say. Evidence it collected allegedly indicates negligence at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Germany, COVID-19, Intelligence, Science, China
7 points by _tk_ 21 days ago | 1 comments
CIA Begins Firing Recently Hired Officers (nytimes.com)
The government cuts ordered by the Trump administration have hit the C.I.A.
Government, Politics, Employment, Intelligence
9 points by belter 28 days ago | 1 comments
CIA director says US has paused sharing intelligence with Ukraine (techcrunch.com)
CIA director John Ratcliffe has confirmed the Trump administration has paused its intelligence sharing operation with Ukraine, following a heated exchange between the two countries’ leaders on Friday.
Politics, Intelligence, International Relations, Ukraine, United States
12 points by josefresco 29 days ago | 1 comments
CIA Director Says U.S. Has Paused Intelligence Sharing with Ukraine (nytimes.com)
The C.I.A. director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that intelligence sharing with Ukraine had been paused alongside military aid to pressure its government to cooperate with the Trump administration’s plans to end the country’s war with Russia.
Politics, International Relations, Ukraine, Russia, Intelligence
25 points by doener 29 days ago | 21 comments
A CIA informant stopped Taiwan from developing nuclear weapons (cnn.com)
Taiwan, Nuclear Weapons, Intelligence, History, Cold War
16 points by cwwc 31 days ago | 12 comments
Elon Musk and Spiky Intelligence (natesilver.net)
Like a lot of successful people, he’s world-class in some dimensions of intelligence but deficient in others.
Elon Musk, Intelligence, Success, Human Behavior
5 points by doener 32 days ago | 3 comments
White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group (ft.com)
International Relations, Intelligence, Canada, United States, Politics
18 points by anigbrowl 34 days ago | 5 comments
Elon Musk and Spiky Intelligence (natesilver.net)
Like a lot of successful people, he’s world-class in some dimensions of intelligence but deficient in others.
Elon Musk, Intelligence, Success, Personalities
18 points by robinhouston 36 days ago | 10 comments
Agency > Intelligence (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Agency, Intelligence, Twitter
6 points by tosh 36 days ago | 1 comments
White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group (ft.com)
Politics, International Relations, Intelligence, Canada, United States
20 points by r721 36 days ago | 16 comments
(ODNI) the Games They Play: Russian Strategic Political Deceptions (2008) [pdf] (governmentattic.org)
Politics, Russia, Intelligence, Espionage, Government Documents
5 points by sans_souse 37 days ago | 1 comments
US asked to kick UK out of Five Eyes (computerweekly.com)
An unprecedented letter from the US Congress, released today, accuses the UK of “a foreign cyber attack waged through political means”.
Politics, International Relations, Cybersecurity, Intelligence, Five Eyes
49 points by dmitrygr 37 days ago | 40 comments
Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science (theseedsofscience.pub)
Stratospheric IQs are about as real as leprechauns, unicorns, mermaids—they’re fun to tell tales about, but the evidence for them being a repeatedly measurable phenomenon that matters in any meaningful sense of the word is zip, zero, zilch.
Intelligence, Science, Psychology
113 points by paulpauper 39 days ago | 155 comments
How to Understand Things (bigthink.com)
True intelligence isn’t just about raw ability — it’s about the discipline to investigate things creatively and directly rather than settling for shallow explanations.
Intelligence, Learning, Curiosity, Knowledge
4 points by galaxyLogic 41 days ago | 0 comments
Elon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data on Its New Website (huffpost.com)
Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it.
Elon Musk, Government, Security, Privacy, Intelligence
94 points by f38zf5vdt 47 days ago | 33 comments
The 'Mosaic' Method and the Value of CIA Names to U.S. Adversaries (lawfaremedia.org)
CIA, Intelligence, Espionage, National Security, Methodology
19 points by hn_acker 51 days ago | 3 comments
NSA employees offered deferred resignation, early retirement (therecord.media)
The National Security Agency is the latest intelligence community entity to offer its workforce the ability to leave their jobs in exchange for a paycheck for several months, according to two sources familiar with the move.
Government, Intelligence, Retirement
17 points by namenumber 56 days ago | 7 comments
CIA Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Employees (nytimes.com)
The C.I.A. sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force, in a move that former officials say risked the list leaking to adversaries.
Politics, National Security, Government, Intelligence
14 points by jbegley 56 days ago | 2 comments
A Spy Satellite You've Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War (ieee.org)
In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem.
Cold War, Military, Space, Intelligence
71 points by Brajeshwar 71 days ago | 17 comments
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019) (medium.com)
“IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning difficulties), as well as, to a lesser extent (with a lot of noise), a form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects — how good someone is at taking some type of exams designed by unsophisticated nerds.
Intelligence, Pseudoscience, Education, Testing
4 points by doener 72 days ago | 0 comments
Genetics, not shared envs, drives parent-child similarities in intelligence (psypost.org)
How much of your cognitive ability is shaped by your genetic inheritance compared to the environment you grow up in? A new study published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility suggests that the transmission of cognitive ability from parents to children is primarily driven by genetics, with little influence from shared environmental factors like family resources. The findings challenge traditional assumptions in social mobility research that often attribute these correlations primarily to socio-economic status.
Genetics, Intelligence, Family, Social Mobility, Research
42 points by amichail 76 days ago | 16 comments
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates (astralcodexten.com)
Richard Lynn was a scientist who infamously tried to estimate the average IQ of every country. Typical of his results is this paper, which ranged from 60 (Malawi) to 108 (Singapore).
Intelligence, Psychology, Sociology, Research, Criticism
10 points by tontonius 77 days ago | 2 comments
MI5 files suggest queen not briefed on spy Blunt in royal household for 9 years (theguardian.com)
The late Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost 10 years that Anthony Blunt, a surveyor of the queen’s pictures and a member of the royal household, had confessed to being a Soviet double agent, previously secret security files suggest.
History, Royal Family, Espionage, Intelligence, United Kingdom
6 points by bookofjoe 78 days ago | 0 comments
Flynn Effect (wikipedia.org)
The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores that were measured in many parts of the world over the 20th century, named after researcher James Flynn (1934–2020). [1][2]
Intelligence, Psychology, Research, History, Sociology
14 points by yamrzou 81 days ago | 9 comments
Ex-Mossad Agents Reveal How They Turned Hezbollah's Devices into Bombs (twz.com)
Key details of the Israeli intelligence service’s operation targeting members of Hezbollah with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies in September have been revealed.
Espionage, Intelligence, Hezbollah, Israel, Security
21 points by thenaturalist 97 days ago | 21 comments
' Straight Talk' on China's Offensives in the American Homeland (thecipherbrief.com)
2024 has brought multiple reminders of the threats – real and potential – posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
China, Security, Politics, Intelligence, United States
3 points by keepamovin 104 days ago | 0 comments
Playing video games boosts IQ in children (sciencealert.com)
Researchers have linked spending more time playing video games with a boost in intelligence in children, which goes some way to contradicting the narrative that gaming is bad for young minds.
Video Games, Intelligence, Children, Science, Health
59 points by loandbehold 108 days ago | 52 comments