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Co-authored with Stephan Vladimir Bugaj
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013205.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…is phenomenon, the "trickiness" of cognitive synergy. [LW MLO09], summarizing a workshop on “Evaluation and Metrics for Human-Level AT’ held in 2008, discusses some of the general difficulties involved in this type of assessment, and some requirements that any viable approach mus...

18.4 SelfModification via Theorem-Proving 323
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013239.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… inputs, and making appropriate independence assumptions. These are not exactly the types of theorems that are found in human-authored mathematics papers. By and large they will be nasty, complex theorems, not the sort that many human mathematicians enjoy proving or reading. But...

Entitlement Spending: While Beneficiaries From Aging Population
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020885.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…iple enrollees in Social Security / Medicare / Medicaid. Source: Social Security K P Administration, Dept. of Health & Human Services. (@)E) www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown 87 Entitlement Spending: Entitlement Program + Government Employee Beneficiaries Are N...

audiences to enormous human suffering. Internet outcry is encouraging
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019099.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

audiences to enormous human suffering. Internet outcry is encouraging, but popular media needs to push back too.” And the original blogger posted another message: “My friend and | wanted to thank everyone for there /s/c/ support and for getting this story out there. We just wa...

Max Tegmark is an MIT physicist and AI researcher; president of the Future of Life
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016283.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…tific director of the Foundational Questions Institute; and the author of Our Mathematical Universe and Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Although there’s great controversy about how and when AI will impact humanity, the situation is clearer from a cos...

in effect, immortal—removes robots from the world of the vulnerable (at least robots of
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016268.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…least robots of the usually imagined sorts, with digital software and memories). If this isn’t obvious, think about how human morality would be affected if we could make “backups” of people every week, say. Diving headfirst on Saturday off a high bridge without benefit of bungee...

After Words
email TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029558.txt Oct 22, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…" Romantic and idealistic as that view may seem to some, the thought is revelatory of the fact that the greater part of human aspiration has been informed by individual intuition and privately generated passions, more than it has through logic or scientific revelation. The moral...

The pay rule joins free growth theory and the Y rule as the three major surprises
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010956.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

The pay rule joins free growth theory and the Y rule as the three major surprises promised in my title. Recovery of human depreciation in pay changes a lot of equations. It does not impact public policy and tax laws as radically as free growth theory, but I will argue that it imp...

Jaan Tallin, a computer programmer, theoretical physicist, and investor, is a co
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016873.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ght me to that eatery and would 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 l...

Farr Curlin meditates on the
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021392.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…s of inquiries in just that way: as objects. But objectifying patients and their disease would seem to work against the human values of empathy and caring for the weak that also seems to be part and parcel of what medicine is as a practice. Curlin argues that religious values inf...

key to understanding when people may
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021345.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…n agent to be, as we are, fundamentally social. References 1. Epley, N., Waytz, A., & Cacioppo, J.T. (2007). On seeing human: A three-factor theory of anthropomorphism. Psychological Review, 114, 864-886. 2. Gray, H.M., Gray, K., & Wegner, D.M. (2007). Dimensions of mind perce...

growth theory says such restraint doesn’t happen. Data say the same. I apply the
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011080.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ion, gives the period of production of total capital. We would miss the point if we focused on the period production of human capital separately. Total capital is our means of lineage survival. This reinforces my theme that human capital does not mean humans. It means skill sets...

100 5 A Generic Architecture of Human-Like Cognition
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013016.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

100 5 A Generic Architecture of Human-Like Cognition other portions of working memory Action —>| Perception execution [> . seam Il -4 active motive \ reinforcement Fig. 5.3: Architecture of Motivated Action CONCEPT }—— FORMATION | HEBBIAN LEARNING | Il | REINFORCEMENT...

Hagerman, |.,Berglund, M., Lorin, M., Nowak, J., Sylven, C.(1996) Chaos-related
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013764.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… J.Y., Goldberger, A.L. (1995) Is walking a random walk? Evidence for long range correlations in the stride interval of human gait. J. Appl. Physiol. 78:349-358 Hausdorff. J.M., Purdon, P.L., Peng, C.-K., Ladin, Z., Wei, J.Y., Goldberger, A.L. (1996) Fractal dynamics of human ga...

294 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015984.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ndroids Dreaming Yet? different feel to them. My question is this. Is there more to face-to-face communication between human beings than the simple exchange of symbolic information? Let us propose an experiment. I erect a 3D screen with a hi-fi surround sound system in a univer...