This document is a proof page (p. 240) from the book 'How America Lost Its Secrets' (authored by Edward Jay Epstein, indicated by the filename prefix 'Epst'). The text discusses Edward Snowden's time in Hong Kong, his interview with the South China Morning Post, and hypothesizes about the reaction of Chinese intelligence services to his possession of NSA documents. It bears a House Oversight Bates stamp, indicating it was part of a congressional document production.
This text discusses Norbert Wiener's contributions to social theory and technology ethics, emphasizing his belief that ideas act as causal forces in history through information feedback loops. It highlights his advocacy for open, liberal societies over authoritarian ones and identifies him as an early "tech prophet" who warned about the dangers of nuclear arms, unaligned artificial intelligence (the value-alignment problem), and the potential for technology to facilitate fascism.
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