Epstein Secrets

f Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT; and co-author (with Ed Regis) of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is th

ous. A perfectly obedient superintelligence whose goals automatically align with those of its human owner would be like Nazi SS- Obersturmbannfithrer Adolf Eichmann on steroids. Lacking moral compass or inhibitions of its own, it would, with ruthless efficiency, implement its owner’s goals, whatever they might be

f Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT; and co-author (with Ed Regis) of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is th

ous. A perfectly obedient superintelligence whose goals automatically align with those of its human owner would be like Nazi SS- Obersturmbannfithrer Adolf Eichmann on steroids. Lacking moral compass or inhibitions of its own, it would, with ruthless efficiency, implement its owner’s goals, whatever they might be

on various parts of the book, or its entirety: Kim Beeman, Kent Berridge, George Cadwalader, Donal Cahill, Noam Chomsky, Jim Churchill, Randy Cohen, Daniel Dennett, Jonathan Figdor, Nick Haslam, Omar Sultan Haque, Lilan Hauser, Bryce Huebner, Ann Jon, Gordon Kraft-Todd, Errol Morris, Philip Pettit, Steven Pinker

to biological inheritance and environmental influence, are more likely to end up as evildoers. Historical material on the lives of Franz Stangl and Adolf Eichmann, leaders in the Nazi annihilation of Jews, illustrates how desire and denial combine within individual minds to create excessive harms. Although this