Epstein Secrets

N VANGIESON,ANN GIBSON,SUSAN STEWARD,CAMPBELL GURRENTZ,MARTIN A SIRIGOTI

DON,SUSAN S LEVERRIER INC ZIMMERMAN,HARRIET M SOTER,WILLIAM J ST EDWARDS PARISH

eparing the first edition of The Whole Earth Catalog for publication. While Lois and the team did the heavy lifting on the final mechanicals for WEC, Stewart and I sat together in a corner for two days, reading, underlining, and annotating the same paperback copy of Cybernetics that Cage had handed to me t

, because while the human knows the reward function, the robot doesn’t—even though the robot’s job is to maximize it. A simple example: Suppose that Harriet, the human, likes to collect paper clips and staples and her reward function depends on how many of each she has. More precisely, if she has p paper

eparing the first edition of The Whole Earth Catalog for publication. While Lois and the team did the heavy lifting on the final mechanicals for WEC, Stewart and I sat together in a corner for two days, reading, underlining, and annotating the same paperback copy of Cybernetics that Cage had handed to me t

, because while the human knows the reward function, the robot doesn’t—even though the robot’s job is to maximize it. A simple example: Suppose that Harriet, the human, likes to collect paper clips and staples and her reward function depends on how many of each she has. More precisely, if she has p paper