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this was a simple question, nearly fifteen years into the wars it was still hard to
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018269.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

this was a simple question, nearly fifteen years into the wars it was still hard to answer. There were a lot of dead terrorists. There were also a lot of new ones. As the war against terrorism had progressed in the years since 2001, it had produced at least this: a huge amount o...

afterthought, and that’s what stuck in people’s minds. That was a
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031906.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

si afterthought, and that’s what stuck in people’s minds. That was a mistake, because it kind of undermined the notion of democracy promotion, simply because it was connected to a very unpopular intervention. SHAFFER: Taking lessons from that, what can we do to promote democr...

Reading Assignments
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024259.txt Feb 8, 1996 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Reading Assignments Day 1: Introduction Welcome! We aspire to the implausible: a nine-day introduction to the unusual dynamics of the world’s digital space, sufficient for a strategic understanding of what makes it difficult (but far from impossible) to regulate or shape; who’s...

I was introduced to Max Tegmark some years ago by his MIT colleague Alan Guth, the
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016282.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

I was introduced to Max Tegmark some years ago by his MIT colleague Alan Guth, the father of the inflationary universe. A distinguished theoretical physicist and cosmologist himself, Max’s principal concern nowadays is the looming existential risk posed by the creation of an AGI...

University, located a few blocks away. There, at the Courant Institute
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022063.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

James PATTERSON University, located a few blocks away. There, at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, he studies the mathematical physiology of from any college or university. the heart. But he never graduates ein is teaching at the Dalton School, a prestigious By...

beginning I kept having this nagging
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029928.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

beginning I kept having this nagging thought: what is so bad about getting better from a placebo?” That kind of thinking, still hard for most doctors to accept, was heretical in 1990, when Kaptchuk arrived at Har- vard. “People kept saying, ‘Oh, this is just the placebo effect”...