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15 First, and not surprisingly, ElBaradei is well aware of the atomic energy agency’s handicaps. For one, its inspections are generally restricted to Non-Proliferation Treaty members and only to those sites declared by those members. Extending this limited mandate to other sites...

…s involvement that could present a conflict of interest now that I had left. Frankly, I saw nothing wrong with earning money through honest endeavor, and using the proceeds to provide economic security for myself and my family, and to give our grandchildren a better start in life...

…others developed for the control of missiles, for example, were later put to work in building the Saturn V moon rocket, one of the crowning engineering achievements of the 20th century. In particular, Wiener’s applications of cybernetic concepts to the brain and to computerized p...

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…ribing behavior as the result of a rational choice about how much to think, it provides a generalizable theory—that is, one that can be applied in new situations. Sometimes the simple strategies that have been identified as heuristics that people follow turn out to be bounded-opt...

…us, nuclear-tipped problems sitting inside its locked safes and eager minds. Shortly after settling in, Baran was given one of the most troubling, deeply secret of these puzzles. The Cold War was then in its early days. The debate over how to manage an age when it was, for the f...

…nd maybe something in me agreed that such a response was incorrect. Eventually, I got away. Stupidly, confused, I mentioned the incident to my boyfriend. Of course he was furious; I had to calm him. For my part, it hadn't occurred to me to be mad. That didn't feel as bizarre as...

…to the piece. And that makes me unhappy.” If some sort of criminal investigation had taken place, that would have been one thing. But, at that time, no criminal investigation into Epstein's affairs had been launched. And in the absence of an investigation, the rumors of Epstein’...

…with Wiener, John von Neumann introduced the notion of the “technological singularity.” Technologies tend to improve exponentially, doubling in power or sensitivity over some interval of time. (For example, since 1950, computer technologies have been doubling in power roughly eve...

video in schools as | proposed. One of my partners in that project is Success Academy, where | could also expand my work with Templeton. And there are still other poems that may satisfy their character criteria more fully, including the third of the poems I'd originally proposed...

One night’s massacre would have been enough to produce the outcry that resulted once the first news reports, photos and TV pictures were sent around the world. That the bloodletting was allowed to continue after we knew what was going on, beyond the cost in innocent lives, made t...

… 66th Street. He asked his brother—did Mark want to join him? He did.” Grossberg himself has had his ups and downs. At one point, he worked in a building owned by the Epstein brothers. There, he says, a porter told him a story about a little-known side of Jef who lived in Sout...

superintelligence. Whither Wiener Wiener noted that exponential technological progress is a relatively modern phenomenon and not all of itis good. He regarded atomic weapons and the development of missiles with nuclear warheads as a recipe for the suicide of the human species....

…the crises generated from inside the White House had overshadowed all outside contenders. Even a gruesome attack, even one on children in an already long war, might not yet be a presidential game changer of the kind that everyone knew would surely come. Still, these were chemica...

…nflicting views in some very tricky real- world situations (e.g. helping to peacefully end apartheid in South Africa). One of the core ideas of the methodology is to have people with very different views explore different possible future scenarios together, in great detail — in...