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What Must Survive a Document? (opens the original)
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Who Owns the Incense? (opens the original)
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The experts would not disclose their technique. They warned that, in the wrong hands, it could be used for evil. When the authorities tried to replace them, their competitors could not reproduce the results. The experts returned to work at twice their previous compensation.This happened in the Temple, according to Yoma 38a. The House of Avtinas knew how to prepare incense whose smoke rose in a distinctive column. They refused to teach their craft. Their explanation was that the Temple would even
Ontology: Preparing the World to Be Seen (opens the original)
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In 2002, Alex Karp defended his doctoral dissertation in German at Goethe University in Frankfurt. He had been living in Germany since the mid-90s, and he wanted the argument conducted in the language it was about.Karp’s thesis was about how aggression moves through a culture inside ordinary speech, absorbed rather than erupting, and how a person can break a rule in a manner that demonstrates he knows the rule from the inside. His empirical case was postwar German resentment of the Jews, what th
Heidegger on AI "Art" (opens the original)
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Great artists, as Heidegger describes, enact a struggle between their subject (the world) and the material they use to portray it (the earth). Heidegger’s word for the struggle is strife. He worked it out in “The Origin of the Work of Art”: the work sets up a world (meaning) and it sets forth the earth (materials). In equipment, material “disappears into usefulness.” You notice a good ax’s edge and never its stone. In a work the flow runs backward; the rock “first becomes rock,” colors “glow,” t
The Paradox of AI Alignment (opens the original)
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On the sixteenth of April, 1797, the crews of sixteen ships of the Channel Fleet, lying at anchor at Spithead off Portsmouth, refused to sail.Their wages had been fixed in 1658 and had not moved in a hundred and thirty-nine years. Aboard ship a pound of provisions weighed fourteen ounces, the purser keeping the other two as his perquisite, and the men were expected to call it a pound because the purser held the scale.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new p
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