designs and provides at least one case of a provably beneficial system in the sense introduced above. The overall approach resembles mechanism-design problems in economics, wherein one incentivizes other agents to behave in ways beneficial to the designer. The key difference here...
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“INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science,...
Throughout his career, whether studying language, advocating a realistic biology of mind, or examining the human condition through the lens of humanistic Enlightenment ideas, psychologist Steven Pinker has embraced and championed a naturalistic understanding of the universe and t...
fresh chances for complex and instant chaos. The emergence of surprise, tragedy, of wealth and hope will be more common now than in less revolutionary times. To follow the logic of the French philosopher Paul Virilio, fora moment: The train produced the train accident. The plane...
a great idea to me. This may sound like a naive idealist, but that’ s the way | looked out at the world in 1968.” | asked Aquino, “Do you think that Cathy O’ Brien and Mark Phillips utilized you in their book [published in 1995] because the Presidio case would give their accusat...
The Quest for Knowledge 367 Pulitzer Prize A Pulitzer Prizes is to the arts what a Nobel Prize is to science. Again the Prize was the result of a bequest. They are awarded in the fields of music, art and literature. Unlike Nobel Prizes, where there are no public nominations and...
Restructuring the University 167 points of view, teaching what description is about not how to work PowerPoint. THIRD YEAR IN COLLEGE AND BEYOND Now what next? After these 2 years, what will students be able to do and what should the faculty do with them? Clearly, faculty, as...
The Kenyans were not exactly allies of Israel. But relations between President Jomo Kenyatta’s security services and Mossad had been close for some years. I flew in with three leading Mossad men. While one of them called on the aging President Kenyatta, our main point of contact,...
written words cut the legs out of this account. Eberhardt’s results suggest that apes are associated with the socio-cultural, racial category “Black.” These findings reveal a deep seated, dehumanized representation that is readily triggered even in highly educated people. But pe...
Ashkenazim — and their prominence and privilege had stoked increasing resentment among Israel’s disadvantaged Sephardi majority, with their roots in the Arab world and especially north Africa. Begin not only sensed this. While he’d never lost the formal bearing — or the accent —...
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the start. A number of others managed to escape when the bus was stopped. But several dozen remained inside. I was in Europe at the time, on one of my periodic trips to discuss Middle East issues with a fellow intelligence chief. Yet an aide called me with the news. I was severa...
simplified and misplaced. Fear deflation? Fear ISIS? Fear the RMB? What we should be contemplating with great care is the connected skein that enmeshes us and all these connected knots of worry. We will see, over and over again, the way in which connection shifts, alters and even...
improper.” This was more than 30 years ago, at a time when being gay, and certainly being gay in the armed forces, was a much bigger deal than now. But I still had no doubt at all that this amounted to a witch-hunt. Moshe still said nothing. “I have no idea whether Dan is or is...
Calibrating the Al-Risk Message While uncannily prescient, the AI-risk message from the original dissidents has a giant flaw—as does the version dominating current public discourse: Both considerably understate the magnitude of the problem as well as AI’s potential upside. The m...