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From: Joscha Bach Sent: Friday, December 25, 2015 7:21 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Interesting people, funds etc Dear Jeffrey, I hope this finds you well! You mentioned that I should point out interesting folks to you: David =alrymple has managed to drop out of two PhD programs, at MIT and =arvard respectively, before he was 21. I got to know him by repeatedly =umping into him during conferences. Peter Thiel gave him a grant to =tudy nematodes, and he dropped out of the resulting institute two years =ater, to join Twitter. He realized that he did not find optimizing =heir software satisfying, finished the project and left Twitter for a =oneymoon journey. His current calling is to radically reinvent the way =perating systems work, but he seems to feel so guilty for his past =ailures to deliver on being a prodigy that he seriously wants to waste = few years as a Al developer for Google to earn enough money to be =orally allowed to work on it, which in my view would be a shame. Once =e figures himself out, he will do great things. A fascinating and very sparkling intellect worth inviting to PED =iscussions might be Scott Aaronson; you probably know him already. He =s a computational physicist working at MIT. Some interesting folks in the Al community (I met many of them at the =IPS conference in Montreal): Demis Hassabis is the one who started =eepMind, and he has ideas beyond Deep Learning. The god fathers of the =ield are currently Geoff Hinton, Yan