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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)

Chapter 16 AGI Preschool Co-authored with Stephan Vladimir Bugaj 16.1 Introduction In conversations with government funding sources or narrow AI researchers about AGI work, one of the topics that comes up most often is that of “evaluation and metrics” — i.e., AGI intelligence...

November 21, 2011
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030814.txt Nov 21, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

November 21, 2011 Topic: The quixotic search for energy solutions Another Don Quixote Thanksgiving. Every year at Thanksgiving 1 , we look in-depth at an issue that affects markets and portfolios. Last year, we examined the unraveling situation in Europe. Unfortunately, most con...

account the cost of computation. Real agents need to modulate the amount of time they
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016898.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

account the cost of computation. Real agents need to modulate the amount of time they spend thinking by the effect the extra thought has on the results of a decision. If you’re trying to choose a toothbrush, you probably don’t need to consider all four thousand listings for manua...

division between top and bottom and do so in a consistent way), then we can keep
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013605.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

division between top and bottom and do so in a consistent way), then we can keep score with a random looking binary series such as 11001001010.... that describes the sequence of rotations. The advantage that accrues by doing so is that this coin flip counting eliminates details i...

designs and provides at least one case of a provably beneficial system in the sense
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016255.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

designs and provides at least one case of a provably beneficial system in the sense introduced above. The overall approach resembles mechanism-design problems in economics, wherein one incentivizes other agents to behave in ways beneficial to the designer. The key difference here...

growing antagonism toward the U.S. government, he had not given
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019517.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Contractor | 29 growing antagonism toward the U.S. government, he had not given up on, if not becoming a secret agent, working in the netherworld of secret intelligence. There was still a back door through which he could reenter the spy world. Private corporations hired civilia...

103 Minn. L. Rev. 844, *899
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016537.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Page 28 of 42 103 Minn. L. Rev. 844, *899 This basic overview - drawn from a substantial scholarly literature - paints a somewhat contradictory picture. On the one hand, the primary story is one of longstanding underenforcement - a combination of explicit legal policies, practic...

Wiener noted that exponential technological progress is a relatively modern phenomenon
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016243.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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....

George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016257.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

THE THIRD LAW George Dyson George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the Kayak, Darwin Among the Machines, Project Orion, and Turing’s Cathedral. The history of computing can be divided into an Old Testament and a New Testament: before an...

run they’re doing better than the United States without having these
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031904.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

29 run they’re doing better than the United States without having these Western institutions. The real challenge is the long-run sustainability of that system, or of the two systems. And looking at that in the long- run, I would still bet on the West, with its rule of law and sy...

258 13 Local, Global and Glocal Knowledge Representation
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013174.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

258 13 Local, Global and Glocal Knowledge Representation 13.5 Neural Foundations of Learning Now we move from knowledge representation to learning — which is after all nothing but the adaptation of represented knowledge based on stimulus, reinforcement and spontaneous activity....

1.12 Key Claims of the Book 13
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012929.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

1.12 Key Claims of the Book 13 The best way to deal with this second “bad AGI” problem is to build ethics into your AGI architecture — and we have done this with CogPrime, via creating a goal structure that explicitly supports ethics-directed behavior, and via creating an overal...

desperation in men like Trichet. I’m pretty sure we'll see versions of this same sort
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018322.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

desperation in men like Trichet. I’m pretty sure we'll see versions of this same sort of crisis in many other areas. More complexity produces more interaction, as you would expect. More pieces of a system rushing and touching and changing each other in a perpetual and accelerati...

misbehavior” that defies simple analysis. You can’t predict where you might be
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018336.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

misbehavior” that defies simple analysis. You can’t predict where you might be attacked by merely looking at the possible holes in each piece. Rather, it’s the whole system that breeds risks. It acts in ways that the designer could not have predicted in advance. “Clearly the syst...

How Come This Book?
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010912.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

FREE GROWTH AND OTHER SURPRISES Draft Gordon Getty FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR How Come This Book? A few months ago, Robert Trivers was kind enough to send me his new book. The title is “Wild Life”. Perfect two ways. Bob is a world authority on wildlife, to wit evolutionary biology....