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…ction—energy is conserved, whereas entropy must grow—followed enormous cosmic consequences. Time must flow forward; 3° Norbert Wiener, “A Scientist Rebels,” Zhe Atlantic Monthly, January 1947. 31 Warren Weaver, “Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication,”...

…plain it—the notion that the late Jerry Fodor dubbed the computational theory of mind. The touchstone for this volume, Norbert Wiener’s The Human Use of Human Beings, celebrated this intellectual accomplishment, of which Wiener himself was a foundational contributor. A potted hi...

…out our Universe to know that it has the potential to wake up much more fully than it has thus far. AI pioneers such as Norbert Wiener have taught us that a further awakening of our Universe’s ability to process and experience information need not require eons of additional evolu...

…ction—energy is conserved, whereas entropy must grow—followed enormous cosmic consequences. Time must flow forward; 3° Norbert Wiener, “A Scientist Rebels,” Zhe Atlantic Monthly, January 1947. 31 Warren Weaver, “Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication,”...

…im to control superintelligent machines? If not, can we ensure that they understand, adopt, and retain human values? As Norbert Wiener put it in Zhe Human Use of Human Beings: Woe to us if we let [the machine] decide our conduct, unless we have previously examined the laws of it...

…ould end up dominating my subsequent work. The First Message: the Soviet Occupation In The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Wiener looked at the world through the lens of communication. He saw a universe that was marching to the tune of the second law of thermodynamics toward...

…r age— as by their modern-sounding insights. I detect that same doubleness—the zig-zag origami folds of old and new—in Norbert Wiener’s classic The Human Use of Human Beings. First published in 1950 and revised in 1954, the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener,...

…bit, the AI is likely to make a horrible mistake. It has absolutely no sense of context. In some ways, it’s as far from Norbert Wiener’s original notion of cybernetics as you can get, because it isn’t contextualized; it’s a little idiot savant. But imagine that you took away tho...