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166 9 General Intelligence in the Everyday Human World
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013082.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

166 9 General Intelligence in the Everyday Human World Under the assumption of the Embodied Communication Prior (with the Natural Knowledge Categories assumption), the property above called “cognitive complete- ness” is necessary and sufficient for efficient general intelligence...

180 10 A Mind-World Correspondence Principle
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013096.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

180 10 A Mind-World Correspondence Principle tion graph. Given two world-paths P and Q, it’s obvious how to define the composition P*Q one follows P and then, after that, follows Q, thus obtaining a longer path. Similarly for mind-paths. In category theory terms, we are constru...

7.3 Toward a Formal Characterization of Real-World General Intelligence 139
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013055.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

7.3 Toward a Formal Characterization of Real-World General Intelligence 139 decays exponentially, whereas an assumptive distribution over environments might decay at some other rate. This issue seems to merit further mathematical investigation. 7.3.4 Incorporating Computational...

only until it runs out of fuel. Similarly, the exponential advances in Moore’s Law are
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016825.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

only until it runs out of fuel. Similarly, the exponential advances in Moore’s Law are starting to run into limits imposed by basic physics. The clock speed of computers maxed out at a few gigahertz a decade and a half ago, simply because the chips were starting to melt. The mini...

—_ Profile: Michael Nobel, who visited Japan in March, 2010
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031372.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… a trust that will honor politicians, scientists and corporations who make a significant contribution in the field of renewable energy by providing awards. NCT also plans to hold international conferences in this field. Michael Nobel has received numerous international citations...

So though no inherent enmity exists between the two countries, a crack emerges
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018411.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

So though no inherent enmity exists between the two countries, a crack emerges. Each side finds reasons not to cooperate. A shared interest in peace - neither side wants a collision, both understand the costs - is shimmied apart by a perception gap. Cultural, historical, temperam...

Knowledge-Based Education vs. Process-Based Education 79
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023825.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Knowledge-Based Education vs. Process-Based Education 79 idea that one needs background knowledge in order to read, which is both true and a product of various works in cognitive science. Hirsch was made to look like a fool so often that he resorted to hir- ing a cognitive scie...

3.2 Some Patternist Principles 39
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012955.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

3.2 Some Patternist Principles 39 — Example: Building towers has been useful in a certain context, but so has building structures with a large number of triangles. Why not build a tower out of triangles? Or maybe a vaguely tower-like structure that uses more triangles than a tow...

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 3:08 PM Larry Summers <> wrote
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029613.txt Mar 16, 2019 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 3:08 PM Larry Summers <> wrote: We talked on phone. Then “I can’t talk later”. Dint think I can talk tomorrow”. I said what are you up to. She said “I’m busy”. I said awfully coy u are. And then I said. Did u really rearrange the weekend we were going to...

recollection of talking te, you know, anyone who is
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010849.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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e §=Utility Value Chain
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024227.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Global Utility White Paper CONFIDENTIAL e §=Utility Value Chain The electricity value chain for a modern day fully integrated utility consists of Generation + Transmission + Distribution + Customers (see diagram below). Each segment of the value chain is a different business, w...

10.5 How Might the Mind-World Correspondence Principle Be Useful? 181
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013097.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

10.5 How Might the Mind-World Correspondence Principle Be Useful? 181 That is, a little more loosely: the hypothesis is that, for intelligence to occur, there has to be a natural correspondence between the transition-sequences of world-states and the corresponding transition-seq...

God. Scientists generally avoid the topic, but since we’re talking
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016029.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Does God have Free Will? God. Scientists generally avoid the topic, but since we’re talking about such a fundamental concept, we must consider whether the Universe would be any different if it had a creator. Recently there have been two widely publicized attacks on religious be...

Table 1: How Changes in Fertility and Mortality Affect Fitness
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011160.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Table 1: How Changes in Fertility and Mortality Affect Fitness Effect Additive Reproductive Discount Relationship on change value factor to donor Donor A. fert. Am) 1 ene) 1 B.mort. AP yh Ala) +-der) i Recipient C. fert. Am) 1 e—P(2\) +7) r D.mort. AP() y) eo Ale +7-+de) r No...