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This document appears to be a page (labeled 137) from a scientific book, essay, or transcript included in House Oversight evidence regarding Jeffrey Epstein. The text, likely authored by a computer scientist or sociologist (the subject matter strongly suggests MIT's Alex Pentland), discusses 'social physics,' comparing human social networks to Artificial Intelligence neural networks. It explores concepts like 'distributed Thompson sampling' and 'group-selection' in evolution to explain how human culture and decision-making function similarly to AI algorithms.
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First-person narrator ('My students and I') discussing research on social physics and AI. Likely Alex Pentland based ...
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Mentioned by the author as assisting in analyzing databases of human decisions.
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"This “social physics” works because human behavior is determined as much by the patterns of our culture as by rational, individual thinking."Source
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"So, what would happen if we replaced the neurons with people?"Source
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"Culture is the result of this sort of human AI as applied to human problems; it is the process of building social structures by reinforcing the good connections and penalizing the bad."Source
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"It’s called “distributed Thompson sampling,” a mathematical algorithm used in choosing, out of a set of possible actions with unknown payoffs, the action that maximizes the expected reward in respect to the actions."Source
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