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literally smarter on every level, and because the abilities of the higher levels depend on those of
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025964.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

literally smarter on every level, and because the abilities of the higher levels depend on those of the lower levels, they can perform abstractions that mature gorillas will never learn, no matter how much we try to train them. The second set of mechanisms is in the motivational...

Fwd: Our May conversation - more thoughts
email TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026499.txt Aug 9, 2018 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Date: Thursday, August 9 2018 10:47 AM Subject: Fwd: Our May conversation - more thoughts From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation©gmail.com> To: BS Stern < Hi all — >; I spent some time mulling additional aspects of a third choice presidential run and wanted to run five specific attributes...

80 4 Brief Survey of Cognitive Architectures
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012996.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

80 4 Brief Survey of Cognitive Architectures 4.5.2 The Society of Mind and the Emotion Machine In his influential but controversial book The Society of Mind [Min&8], Marvin Minsky described a model of human intelligence as something that is built up from the interactions of num...

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016404.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but through this bypath of neural networks. But simple neural networks didn’t do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the la...

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016987.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but through this bypath of neural networks. But simple neural networks didn’t do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the la...

enough time and unlimited visual aids, a human could express a preference (or
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016837.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

enough time and unlimited visual aids, a human could express a preference (or indifference) when offered a choice between two future lives laid out before him or her in all their aspects. (This idealization ignores the possibility that our minds are composed of subsystems with in...

enough time and unlimited visual aids, a human could express a preference (or
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016254.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

enough time and unlimited visual aids, a human could express a preference (or indifference) when offered a choice between two future lives laid out before him or her in all their aspects. (This idealization ignores the possibility that our minds are composed of subsystems with in...

Western Union, which has the telegraph monopoly in America, to provide the Black Chamber
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020307.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

155 Western Union, which has the telegraph monopoly in America, to provide the Black Chamber with all the telegrams coming into the United States. “Its far-seeking eyes penetrate the secret conference chambers at Washington, Tokyo, London, Paris, Geneva, Rome,” Yardley wrote abo...

Turing’s Machine 213
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015903.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Turing’s Machine 213 Thanks to Turing’s insight into coding schemes and the machines he designed, the British were soon able to read almost every coded message the Germans sent during the war, giving the Allies an enormous advantage. The D-Day invasion involved convincing Hitler...

You might argue we could devise a more sophisticated mechanical
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015831.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Knowledge 141 You might argue we could devise a more sophisticated mechanical filter, something that contains an algorithm with an understanding of the rules of language. The problem is both the size of the task and the nature of understanding. If I devised some really good appr...

Tom Griffiths is Henry R. Luce Professor of Information, Technology, Consciousness
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016312.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

THE ARTIFICIAL USE OF HUMAN BEINGS Tom Griffiths Tom Griffiths is Henry R. Luce Professor of Information, Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. When you ask people to imagine a world that...

Acknowledgements 379
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016069.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Acknowledgements 379 Traversing an Infinite plane with a Line Spear and Hunter Hilbert Hotel Video Link Holding Infinity in Your Hand Number Quiz 1 Number Quiz 2 Donate a Random Number Which Number is Random Smallpox Virus Smallpox Child Chapter 9 Donald Rumsfeld Kurt Géd...

early-stage life science-based ventures, especially those with one or more of these technologies
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025187.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

* early-stage life science-based ventures, especially those with one or more of these technologies: optics, wearable-sensors, brain-computer interface, behavioral engineering that goes beyond robo- noodging. I am not up to speed on synthetic bio and CRISPR, but I have a good frie...