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P(doom) & AE (Albert Einstein) (opens the original)
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I enjoy learning new words. One of my favorites lately is P(doom), the probability that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will exterminate humanity. AI safety researchers Evan Hubinger and Jacob Coxon, along with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, recently said there’s more than a 10% chance this will happen in the next ten years.Unlike many people, I’m not panicking about this. The reason is simple: I’m not good at math.I don’t understand a 10% chance of human extinction. It seems to me there’s a
Does that Lulav Still Wave (opens the original)
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Of all the Jewish holy days, only two still speak to me. The first is Shabbat, a weekly retreat from the work of maintaining the delusion of a separate self and from the fearful, violent, dualistic, and zero-sum worldview to which that delusion is addicted. The second, which begins this Friday at sundown, is Sukkot, the Festival of Booths.Sukkot is an eight-day celebration of fertility amid fragility. We gather in sukkot (booths once used to story the fall harvest and shelter the harvesters) dec
Pete Hegseth & Isaiah 6:8 (opens the original)
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In a country ignorant of the Bible, it is vital that we fact-check Bible-thumpers. Case in point: “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth’s incessant use of Isaiah 6:8 to rally people to Trump’s endless wars.Pete conjures a scene in which God, searching for a few good men to defend the faithful against Islamists and Communists, cries out, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” Then the prophet Isaiah, a middle-aged, bearded, brown-skinned Jew who, in Pete’s mind, stands in for young, white, clean-shav
No Person (opens the original)
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Yom Kippur begins Sunday at sundown. I treat Yom Kippur as a day of contemplation. In preparation, I’m studying Rabbi Shalom Dovber Schneersohn’s Exploring the Soul, written in 1919 and published by Kehot Publication Society in 2016.This small book is a transcript of a talk Rabbi Schneersohn gave on Leviticus 16:17: “No person shall be in the Tent of Meeting from the moment he [the High Priest] enters to make atonement in the sanctuary until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and fo
Muslims or Jews: Who is the bigger threat? (opens the original)
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Texas Republican Bo French has a history of making racist social media posts. He is also a candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission, a position that, despite its somewhat anachronistic title, matters and often serves as a stepping stone to higher office. One of Mr. French’s posts asked: “Who is the bigger threat to America: Muslims or Jews?”Given Bo’s high-profile media presence this week, I felt compelled to respond.America, as I suspect Mr. French wants it to be, is a white, Christian, patr
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