Epstein Secrets

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’s treatment of “information” sounded more like Matthew Arnold in 1869°? than Claude Shannon in 1948—more “body and spirit” than “bit.” Wiener shared Arnold’s Romantic view of the “content producer” as well. “Properly speaking the artist, the writer, and the scientist should be moved by such an irresistib

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.

’s treatment of “information” sounded more like Matthew Arnold in 1869°? than Claude Shannon in 1948—more “body and spirit” than “bit.” Wiener shared Arnold’s Romantic view of the “content producer” as well. “Properly speaking the artist, the writer, and the scientist should be moved by such an irresistib

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.