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62 4 Brief Survey of Cognitive Architectures
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012978.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…orts there. The center of Cyc is an engine for logical deduction, acting on knowledge represented in predicate logic. A natural language engine has been associated with the logic engine, which enables one to ask English questions and get English replies. Stephen Reed, while an e...

on. As I would learn one stunning aspect after another, I would discuss them with friends and associ
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024385.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…e Control Factor as an “active and continuous process” designed to maintain that sense, if not illusion, of control. We natural ly think that our thinking and feeling processes are passive; that they just happen. Yet when faced with truly frightening prospects, the mind is geared...

Our Struggle to See the True Threat
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024408.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…e Control Factor as an “active and continuous process” designed to maintain that sense, if not illusion, of control. We natural ly think that our thinking and feeling processes are passive; that they just happen. Yet when faced with truly frightening prospects, the mind is geared...

There’s yet another level, and probably one day it will have a more interesting
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016410.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… understandable by brains and communicable to other brains and to computers, it’s also immediately executable. Just as natural language gave us civilization, knowledge-based programming will give us—what? One bad answer is that it will give us the civilization of the Als. That’s...

The Game: All Things Trump
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018703.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…res Serrano "In the history of science the collector of specimens preceded the zoologist and followed the exponents of natural theology and magic..... However lowly, the work of the collector must be done, before he can proceed to the higher scientific tasks of classification, a...

perceptions so as to restore that sense of inner control. I describe the Control Factor as an “activ
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024421.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…e Control Factor as an “active and continuous process” designed to maintain that sense, if not illusion, of control. We natural ly think that our thinking and feeling processes are passive; that they just happen. Yet when faced with truly frightening prospects, the mind is geared...

You can show this in children’s everyday learning, too. Young children rapidly
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016377.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ey are. These systems are being used to control weapons, for example, and we really should be scared about that. Still, natural stupidity can wreak far more havoc than artificial intelligence; we humans will need to be much smarter than we have been in the past to properly regula...

There’s yet another level, and probably one day it will have a more interesting
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016993.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… understandable by brains and communicable to other brains and to computers, it’s also immediately executable. Just as natural language gave us civilization, knowledge-based programming will give us—what? One bad answer is that it will give us the civilization of the Als. That’s...

138 7 A Formal Model of Intelligent Agents
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013054.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…oals, is its expected performance with respect to goals drawn from y in environments drawn from v, over the time-scales natural to the goals; that is, HEE GEG,T (in those cases where this sum is convergent). This definition formally captures the notion that “intelligence is ac...

Re: My Wall Street 2 Story
email TEXT-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032005.txt Jan 11, 2010 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…nner at "21" to meet his leading men Josh and Shia so they could observe New York's most charismatic powerbroker in his natural environment. The scene is London so the grey skies are perfect. Gekko has moved abroad to make his financial comeback. The scene opens on the back of hi...

Goe08. Ben Goertzel. A pragmatic path toward endowing virtually-embodied ais with human-level lin
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013262.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…orld general intelligence. 2010. Goel0d. Ben et al Goertzel. A general intelligence oriented architecture for embodied natural language processing. In Proc. of the Third Conf. on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-10). Atlantis Press, 2010. Goo86. I. Good. The Estimation of P...

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email TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022684.txt Jan 30, 2015 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… of sordid claims." Clinton's discretion on matters of sexual restraint has attained permanent notoriety, so maybe it's natural to assume that particular leopard doesn't change his spots. But at this point, there is simply nothing to back those sordid claims up. Here's what we do...

The impact of funding decline on female empowerment through the FC2 female
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027071.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ps keep the device in place during use. FC2's primary raw material, a nitrile polymer, offers a number of benefits over natural rubber latex, the raw material most commonly used in male condoms. FC2's nitrile polymer is stronger than latex, reducing the probability that the femal...

The human motivation for social
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021250.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…the way anthropomorphic language works to incorporate human society in a web of ethical obligations that connect to the natural environment and, by imaginative extension, to the universe as a whole. Personifications of God 12. How Does God Become Real Becoming a person of faith...

sensation alive to the pull of constant, instant connection. This Seventh Sense reacts
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018245.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ou achived this?” he asked. “What I follow is The Way,” the butcher said, referring to the idea of a spiritual force, a natural energy which Daoisim tells us infuses everthing, from trees to the human heart. “When | started butchering, all I could see was parts of the ox itself....