From: "jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: Interesting people, funds etc Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 20:57:30 +0000 Forwarded message From: Jeffrey E. [email protected]> Date: Friday, December 25, 2015 Subject: Interesting people, funds etc To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Forwarded message From: Joscha Bach <1 Date: Friday, 25 December 2015 Subject: Interesting people, funds etc To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Dear Jeffrey, I hope this finds you well! You mentioned that I should point out interesting folks to you: David Dalrymple has managed to drop out of two PhD programs, at MIT and Harvard respectively, before he was 21. I got to know him by repeatedly bumping into him during conferences. Peter Thiel gave him a grant to study nematodes, and he dropped out of the resulting institute two years later, to join Twitter. He realized that he did not find optimizing their software satisfying, finished the project and left Twitter for a honeymoon journey. His current calling is to radically reinvent the way operating systems work, but he seems to feel so guilty for his past failures to deliver on being a prodigy that he seriously wants to waste a few years as a AI developer for Google to earn enough money to be morally allowed to work on it, which in my view would be a shame. Once he figures himself out, he will do great things. A fascinating and very sparkling intellect worth inviting to PED discussions might be Scott Aaronson; you probably know him already. He is a computational physicist working at MIT. Some interesting folks in the AI community (I met many of them at the NIPS conference in Montreal): Demis Hassabis is the one who started DeepMind, and he has ideas beyond Deep Learning. The god fathers of the field are currently Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio: especially Bengio is an interesting person to talk to. Jurgen Schmidhuber seems to h