Epstein Secrets

quality What did the thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson mean in 1776 when he wrote, “We hold these Truths

n be more impartial, calm, and consistent and less abusive or mischievous than people in such positions. Equality What did the thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson mean in 1776 when he wrote, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed 169 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016

nal aptitude is suppressed in deference to the mediocre lowest common denominator of society. Thought experiments like John Searle’s Chinese Room and Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics all appeal to the sorts of intuitions plaguing human brains that Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and others have demonstrated.

quality What did the thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson mean in 1776 when he wrote, “We hold these Truths

n be more impartial, calm, and consistent and less abusive or mischievous than people in such positions. Equality What did the thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson mean in 1776 when he wrote, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed 169 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016

nal aptitude is suppressed in deference to the mediocre lowest common denominator of society. Thought experiments like John Searle’s Chinese Room and Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics all appeal to the sorts of intuitions plaguing human brains that Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and others have demonstrated.

to be that history was made in public: Big visible wars and social shifts and revolutions. Pericles in the Athenian square; the churning protests of Jefferson’s Paris or the massing of armies. Now, however, subtle manipulations of technology, invisible to most of us and maybe even accidental, maybe weird, w

tered. This challenge, which sounds like something out of science fiction, is known by technologists by a name that does sound like a short story by Isaac Asimov: “The Confinement Problem”. The computer scientist Butler Lampson named this in 1973 as a sort of task for computer security experts - possibly their