HeyJaredThe Frum Observer
The Frum Observer is a Jewish publication built for the second Haskala.
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A Short Essay on Names (opens the original)
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Today, the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, issued an executive order directing the U.S. government to replace “artificial intelligence” (AI) with “super intelligence” (SI) in official communications and other non-statutory documents. Without proper context, this seems patently absurd and certainly not something a president should be doing. I will try to convince you otherwise.To create a word is to name a thing. Language can be understood in this way: names for things, experienc
“Why Do They Feed Torah to the Students like an Ox?” (opens the original)
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IntroductionFollowing my first translation of Berdyczewski, I had to make a decision as to what writings to translate next. I settled on a group of twelve letters Berdyczewski wrote when he was 23 years old and still studying in Volozhin. These twelve letters appeared in six installments throughout 1888 in the Hebrew newspaper Ha-Melitz. Berdyczewski originally wanted to publish them in Ha-Tzfira, a newspaper he had already been publishing in anonymously but Nahum So
Derrida and the Terror of AI Risk (opens the original)
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I’ve been wanting to write about the term Existential Reward (here on, Reward). For anyone familiar with AI discourse, this is meant to try and seed a counterweight term to Existential Risk (here on, Risk), which has at this point entirely broken containment from the mangroves of the Yudkowsky/LessWrong communities. Risk, in AI discourse, refers to the possibility that AI could threaten human existence as such, whether through extinction or some other permanent foreclosure of the human future. H
Micha Josef Berdyczewski’s “Hetzitz V’nifga” (“He Gazed and was Struck”) (opens the original)
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PreambleThere are times in a readers life when one encounters writing that strikes so deep into one’s soul that one becomes entirely overtaken by the writer. I have experienced this less times than I can count on one hand. My first reading of this story was one of those times. I believe I have produced the first public English translation of this story and I have already begun working on more of the authors work. I believe Berdyczewski may hold a key to delivering Judaism out of its current sad
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