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To: Victoria Stodden From: Jeffrey Epstein Sent Sun 9/6/2009 11:10:23 AM Subject Re: most are goofballs. however, there seems to be a kernel of an idea , here and there „ even if by accident. , I know little about them, have met many, the contention that though most people are afraid of death, they are as concerned if you tell them they will live for 1 000 years On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Victoria Stodden wrote: I know some of them - not Eric Baum. I liked his criticism of engineering as creating static and nonevolutionary design. Ill try and apply that to my work in scientific Innovation: code and evolve, simple publication results are static. He has a nice framing - robust programming - that computational science as a whole might benefit from, going beyond his CAD apps. There is a similar idea to his notion of modularization in the study of scientific progress called black boxes - the components we build future results on (another aspect to my research is the consequence of the Internet making these opaque component boxes transparent). I don't know Peter Thiel (funder of singularity institute) personally, but found him interesting at one point a few years ago since he comes from the same Ayn Rand and Stanford background as I do. I saw him speak on the singularity at Google about a year or so ago and didn't think he knew what he was talking about and lost interest. In fact, I'm not sure those Singularity guys are being precise or scientific about what they're doing, generally speaking. Might not be an issue for you but makes it less Interesting for me. Wouldn't mind chatting with Norvig and maybe a few others though, and I know Michael Nielsen personally and like him. Brockman asked me about them a few weeks ago and he questioned the lack of Involvement by women. I agree that's weird. I told him Thiel was gay and he was surprised at his own prescience! A good friend of mine went to the singularity summit a couple weeks ago. I'll ask him about it. On 9/5/09 7:54 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation gmail.coni> wrote: http://singinst.orgimedia/sIngularitvsummit2008/encbaum I'm going to search this domain for more people *********************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of Jeffrey Epstein Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by EFTA_R1_00191044 EFTA01818784 return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected], and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. EFTA_R1_00191045 EFTA01818785