Jeffrey Epstein Answers The Annual Edge Question

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Here is Jeffrey Epstein's answer to the 2004 EDGE Question "What is your Law?":

1. Be conscious of the time that you are winning. 2. The key question isn't what I gain but what do I lose?

Every year, publisher John Brockman publishes a query on his Edge website, whose membership consists of some of the world's most powerful, famous, thinkers, and achievers. The list isn't just confined to scientists, Nobel Laureates, and MacArthur "Genius" Fellows, it also consists of world's most well-known high-tech pioneers, leading businessmen and women, and effective entrepreneurs, with diverse opinions, backgrounds, and expertise.

Brockman will just put a question out there. No strings attached on how you answer it. Some answers could be short like Jeffrey Epstein's above, but others can read like virtual theses, which go on page after page. Sometimes, much more is said within the shorter pieces, and less in the longer pieces. Those with great minds aren't the only ones who possess the capacity to communicate thus making it all the much more fascinating with all ideas and concepts coming from all four corners.

Distinguished Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn wrote:

Kosslyn's First Law: The body and mind might appear separated but they are actually not. Not only does the state of the body effect the mind, but vice-versa.

Kosslyn's Second Law: The individual and also the group are not as separate as they appear to be. Each mind has an effect on other people

A PC scientist referred to as David Gelernter wrote these 3 laws:

Gelernter's First Law: People appear stupid simply because of computers.

Gelernter's Second Law: One expert is worth a million intellectuals. (This law is only approximate.)

Gelernter's Third Law: Scientists are aware of the correct answers but they are blind when it comes to the right questions.

Robert Sapolsky a biology professor also hs three laws in science:

Sapolsky's First Law: Believe logically, but orthogonally

Sapolsky's Second Law: As long as you do not believe in nonsense then it is ok to think about it.

Sapolsky's Third Law: Often, the biggest impediment to scientific progress is not what we don't know, but what we do.

Of course, the list is filled with approaches to this questions from the likes of well known intellectuals.

Edge is more than just posting queries answered by the so-called and self-labeled "intelligensia", it's also about sponsoring prizes, like the Edge of Computation prize, awarded to David Deutsch, for his groundbreaking work in quantum computers. American financier, philanthropist, and Edge associate and supporter Jeffrey Epstein put up the prize cash in 2005.