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Most people made aware of a plot to kidnap and murder children on an industrial scale would want to do something about it. It is hardly surprising that Edgar Maddison Welch, learning of such a wicked scheme, and outraged that law enforcement agencies were doing nothing, took matters into his own hands.On 4 December 2016, Welch brought an assault rifle and handgun down to Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington DC, to liberate the children held captive there in the basement. But he found no children and no basement.That…

The information processing advantages of the newspaper press. The first scenario to the left, the agent exercises its epistemic vigilance towards a host of different testimonial sources that provide communicated information. With the advent of the institutions of epistemic vigilance, the institution exercises epistemic vigilance on potential testimonial sources as well as the content communicated by them. The institution gathers, curates, then presents a…