Documents tagged "Ben"
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025231.txt
The email discusses an interview with Arthur Laffer, the architect of Reaganomics, where he suggests that President Obama adopt common-sense economic policies such as a flat tax, spending restraint, sound money, and free trade to solve the nation's economic woes. He also criticized Ben Bernanke for running the least sound monetary policy, and said that Standard & Poor's was correct in downgrading the US credit rating.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024271.txt
This document discusses the growing interest and adoption of blockchain technology among key figures in the tech industry, such as Bill Gates, Ben Bernanke, Eric Schmidt, Milton Friedman, Peter Thiel, and Al Gore. It also mentions companies like NASDAQ, Citi, Santander, and PayPal that are exploring and implementing blockchain technology in their operations. The document highlights the potential of blockchain to revolutionize various industries and improve efficiency, security, and transparency in financial transactions.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012899.txt
This document is a book written by Ben Goertzel about Engineering General Intelligence. In it, he outlines a practical approach to creating software systems with general intelligence at the human level and beyond. The focus of the first part of the book is on critical conceptual issues related to the nature of intelligence and mind. It also sketches the broad outlines of a novel, integrative architecture for Artificial General Intelligence called CogPrime, and describes an approach for giving an AGI system appropriate experience so that it can develop its own smarts, creativity and wisdom through its own experience. The book dedicates to Goertzel's grandfather who was also a deep thinker and excellent scientist.