David Gelernter

His bombs killed three people during a seventeen-year terror campaign and wounded many others.

One of his bombs gravely injured my friend David Gelernter, one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time.

Like many of my colleagues, I felt that I could easily have been the Unabomber's next target.

Kaczynski's actions were murderous and, in my view, criminally insane.

His bombs killed three people during a seventeen-year terror campaign and wounded many others.

One of his bombs gravely injured my friend David Gelernter, one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time.

Like many of my colleagues, I felt that I could easily have been the Unabomber's next target.

Kaczynski's actions were murderous and, in my view, criminally insane.

Any changes to such a system will cascade in ways that are difficult to predict.

This is especially true when human actions are involved.

I started showing friends the Kaczynski quote from The Age of Spiritual Machines.

I would hand them Kurzweil's book, let them read the quote, and then watch their reaction as they discovered who had written it.

The glue he used to assemble the bombs was made from deer hooves.

In the late 1970s, Ted Kaczynski briefly returns to Chicago, living with his parents and working for his brother David, who's seven years younger.

And, by all accounts, completely well-adjusted.

During this period, Ted awkwardly pursues a female supervisor named Ellen Tarmichael.

When she asks him to stop his advances, Ted begins posting insulting limericks about her around their shared workspace.

David warns him to stop.

Ted refuses, then deliberately posts another one and effectively challenges his brother to fire him.

And David

His bombs killed three people during a seventeen-year terror campaign and wounded many others.

One of his bombs gravely injured my friend David Gelernter, one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time.

Like many of my colleagues, I felt that I could easily have been the Unabomber's next target.

Kaczynski's actions were murderous and, in my view, criminally insane.

Any changes to such a system will cascade in ways that are difficult to predict.

This is especially true when human actions are involved.

I started showing friends the Kaczynski quote from The Age of Spiritual Machines.

I would hand them Kurzweil's book, let them read the quote, and then watch their reaction as they discovered who had written it.

His bombs killed three people during a seventeen-year terror campaign and wounded many others.

One of his bombs gravely injured my friend David Gelernter, one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time.

Like many of my colleagues, I felt that I could easily have been the Unabomber's next target.

Kaczynski's actions were murderous and, in my view, criminally insane.

Any changes to such a system will cascade in ways that are difficult to predict.

This is especially true when human actions are involved.

I started showing friends the Kaczynski quote from The Age of Spiritual Machines.

I would hand them Kurzweil's book, let them read the quote, and then watch their reaction as they discovered who had written it.

So, uh, to kind of close us off here, what I'm gonna go through, uh, to kind of end this off is why is, why are these terms and the way they, uh, stage this, why is it deceptive? And so starting off from the Mirror Worlds book, because it mentions it, uh, here, I wanted to give everybody a, a bit of a recap before I did that, so that's what that last slide was about.

Uh, and that being the inversion of reality to a mirror world, uh, from the book by David Gelernter, Mirror Worlds.

And I'll read.

It says, "As computer scientist David Gelernter established in Mirror Worlds, when every institution, corporation, and city builds software digital twins," or, you know, surrogate models, "a subtle shift occurs." From the book it says, quote, "The real world starts tracking the mirror world instead of the other way around.

The virtual simulation becomes-

Mm-hmm