Epstein Secrets

# 4, pp 41-50. (Selection for:: The Best American Science and Nature Writing , (2003) Richard Dawkins, guest editor; Tim Folger, series editor. NY: Houghton Mifflin --Reprinted in Roesch, R. & Gagnon, N. (Eds) (2007) Psychology and law. Hampshire, UK: Ashgate. Hyman, I.E., & Loftus, E.F. (2002) False childhood

ifornia State Univ. Psychology Research Fair, San Marcos, CA(Keynote) West Virginia State Bar Assn, Morgantown, WV New York Skeptics Society, NY (Isaac Asimov Lecture Award) Northwest Cognition Conference, Victoria, B.C. (Keynote) Iowa Public Defender's Annual Meeting, Dubuque, IO West Virginia Public

e system may be pwned before we're quite aware. Such 173 “Democracy”: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 246 174 “Our constitution”: Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War, (Oxford: Oxford University Clarendon Press, 1881),119 119 HOUS

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

ish “analog” versus “digital.” Digital signal encoding was entirely compatible with cybernetic thinking—in 33 The Human Use of Human Beings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), p. 17-18. 125 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016928 fact, enabling to it. What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an analogy of struc

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.

ish “analog” versus “digital.” Digital signal encoding was entirely compatible with cybernetic thinking—in 33 The Human Use of Human Beings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), p. 17-18. 125 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016345 fact, enabling to it. What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an analogy of struc

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.