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Book excerpt / essay / congressional exhibit
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This document is page 77 of a larger work, likely a book or collection of essays, bearing the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016880'. It features an essay titled 'Tech Prophecy and the Underappreciated Causal Power of Ideas' by Harvard Professor Steven Pinker. The text discusses Artificial Intelligence, the computational theory of mind, and the work of Norbert Wiener regarding cybernetics and entropy. While the text does not explicitly mention Jeffrey Epstein, it is part of a House Oversight Committee production, likely related to investigations into Epstein's funding of scientific research and academia.
People (7)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Steven Pinker | Author / Johnstone Family Professor |
Author of the essay; Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.
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| Jerry Fodor | Philosopher/Cognitive Scientist |
Mentioned for dubbing the 'computational theory of mind.'
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| Norbert Wiener | Mathematician/Philosopher |
Subject of discussion; author of 'The Human Use of Human Beings'; foundational contributor to cybernetics.
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| Claude Shannon | Mathematician |
Credited for explaining knowledge and communication in terms of information.
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| Warren Weaver | Scientist |
Credited alongside Shannon for explaining knowledge and communication.
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| Alan Turing | Mathematician/Computer Scientist |
Credited for explaining intelligence and reasoning in terms of computation.
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| John von Neumann | Mathematician/Physicist |
Credited alongside Turing for explaining intelligence and reasoning in terms of computation.
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Organizations (2)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Harvard University |
Employer of Steven Pinker (Department of Psychology).
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016880'.
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Academic institution where Pinker works.
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Relationships (1)
Pinker analyzes Wiener's work 'The Human Use of Human Beings' in this essay.
Key Quotes (3)
"Artificial intelligence is an existence proof of one of the great ideas in human history: that the abstract realm of knowledge, reason, and purpose does not consist of an élan vital or immaterial soul or miraculous powers of neural tissue."Source
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"It is my thesis... that the physical functioning of the living individual and the operation of some of the newer communication machines are precisely parallel in their analogous attempts to control entropy through feedback"Source
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"This complex of behavior is ignored by the average man, and in particular does not play the role that it should in our habitual analysis of society"Source
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