Epstein Secrets

Lolita book is bubbling away in a corner of my brain, but I have to keep it on the back burner, since I have a fellowship to write the biography of Karl Popper and really have to finish that this time, having allowed myself to get distracted before by Nabokov and Darwin on another fellowship for the same pr

before by Nabokov and Darwin on another fellowship for the same project. It's much harder for me to research and write than anything on Nabokov, but Popper's another monumentally important person with still a lot to say to the world, so for that reason as well I have to do it. But if you want to start

theme from which both reason, as Herbert Spencer taught in the nineteenth century, is what he called “survival of the fittest.” Another philosopher, Karl Popper, found fault with this idea a century later. Popper was one of those | mentioned who disapprove of truisms. | haven’t read Popper, but gather that he

r philosopher, Karl Popper, found fault with this idea a century later. Popper was one of those | mentioned who disapprove of truisms. | haven’t read Popper, but gather that he thought it improper to define fitness as potential survival, and then measure it as survival. That objection is close to being un

fe changing people's worldviews, his recognition among his peers as an intellectual goes well beyond his scientific achievement. He argues (following Karl Popper) that scientific theories are “bold conjectures, ” not derived from evidence but only tested by it. His two main lines of research at the moment—qubi

in artificial general intelligence (AGI). Here I'll reserve the term “thinking” for processes that can create understanding (explanatory knowledge). Popper’s argument implies that all thinking entities—human or not, biological or artificial—must create such knowledge in fundamentally the same way. Hence

fe changing people's worldviews, his recognition among his peers as an intellectual goes well beyond his scientific achievement. He argues (following Karl Popper) that scientific theories are “bold conjectures, ” not derived from evidence but only tested by it. His two main lines of research at the moment—qubi

in artificial general intelligence (AGI). Here I'll reserve the term “thinking” for processes that can create understanding (explanatory knowledge). Popper’s argument implies that all thinking entities—human or not, biological or artificial—must create such knowledge in fundamentally the same way. Hence