Epstein Secrets

e first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—

and directed the slaves as they mindlessly (mechanically) churned their oars. The Greek had already migrated into modern English via Latin, going 47 Wiener later had to admit the earlier coinage of the word in 1834 by André-Marie Ampére, who had intended it to mean the “science of government,” a concept

ut, harmonizing those sensory, scintillating signals. Mind happens well outside the limits of the cranium (and its simulacrum, the “motherboard”). In Mary Catherine Bateson’s paraphrase of her father Gregory’s second-order cybernetics, mind is material “not necessarily defined by a boundary such as an envelope of skin.”°

e first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—

and directed the slaves as they mindlessly (mechanically) churned their oars. The Greek had already migrated into modern English via Latin, going 47 Wiener later had to admit the earlier coinage of the word in 1834 by André-Marie Ampére, who had intended it to mean the “science of government,” a concept

ut, harmonizing those sensory, scintillating signals. Mind happens well outside the limits of the cranium (and its simulacrum, the “motherboard”). In Mary Catherine Bateson’s paraphrase of her father Gregory’s second-order cybernetics, mind is material “not necessarily defined by a boundary such as an envelope of skin.”°

d science philanthropist, who, in the abstract for his essay, writes: "An interesting cultural evolution is happening in the AI research community. Wiener's original warnings were buried for 50+ years, only to re-emerge within a small community of 'dissidents,' and are now slowly—and very encouragingl

cher Geoffrey West; the computational socia)1 scientist Alex "Sandy" Pentland; the computer scientist W. Daniel Hillis; the cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson; the arts curator Hans Ulrich Obrist; the genomics researcher George Church; the molecular biologist Ventraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan, the quantum me