Epstein Secrets

Bigelow's "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology" (1943); McCullouch & Pitts's "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" (1943); von Neumann's book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (with Oskar Morgenstem) 1944; Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948); Wiener's Cybe

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r machine, now known as a Universal Turing Machine, an arbitrary set of computing instructions could be encoded on that same tape. In the 1940s, von Neumann developed an abstract self-reproducing machine called a cellular automaton. In this case it occupied a finite subset of an infinite two- dimensional

nn, and physicist Max Tegmark, are deeply concerned with the threat of AI, including the existential one, while others, notably robotics entrepreneur Rodney Brooks, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and bestselling author Steven Pinker, have a very different view. Serious, searching and authoritative, Deep Thinking la