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…e bus to school south of Tel Aviv, when another Gazan stabbed her to death. To the extent Israelis were looking for someone to blame, there were obvious candidates. The army, the primary defense against the intifada, was one. The police even more so, since many of the attacks wer...

…ords to confuse the issues before the jury. Defendant offers no reason for addressing the relevance of such documents one by one at trial, and I think these can be safely excluded at this juncture. MS. McCAWLEY: Your Honor, next is number 17, which we addressed in our papers,...

superintelligence. Whither Wiener Wiener noted that exponential technological progress is a relatively modern phenomenon and not all of itis good. He regarded atomic weapons and the development of missiles with nuclear warheads as a recipe for the suicide of the human species....

…ricans seek instant gratification — and the converse). Its theme was that this century is special: it’s the first when one species, ours, has the planet’s future in its hands. We’re deep in an era that’s called the anthropocene. We have huge powers for good. We could trigger the...

…ilarity between CogPrime and Joshua Blue is that in both systems, nodes are assigned two quantitative attention values, one governing allocation of current system resources (mainly processor time; this is CogPrime’s ShortTermImportance) and one governing the long-term allocation...

…nd effectively to genocide. It is important to realize that the sheer amount of time the UN spends chastising Israel in one-sided and repetitive resolutions is also time vor spent on genocide. As the NGO UN Watch notes, “Diplomats at foreign ministries or UN missions have a limit...

…ft of Palestinian youth organizations—located in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria—all united around one goal: to create a Palestinian Tahrir Square. They organized the unity march that helped pressure Fatah and Hamas to reconcile. Ten days ago, they organized...

…n-controversial parts will still be insightful. He manages to come across as very subversive, while rarely offending anyone (except the hard scientists, that miss hard substance). He also asks influential people and smart students or faculty to write parts of his essays and spee...

…ain. I think abstractly and then translate those thoughts into words. Some ideas don’t map between languages and often, one language adopts the words of another to fill in the gaps. Some interesting examples are: Zeitgeist German, spirit of the times Schadenfreude German, enjoyi...

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… SHAFFER: You’ve probably heard a lot of phony rebuttals based on misreading of The End of History. So, | won’t attempt one — but you’ve made oblique references to your own revisions and criticisms. How does the rise of China and the current Arab unrest, for example, fit into the...

…e could charge,” Villafafia wrote. At Epstein’s sentencing, assistant Palm Beach prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek was questioned by the judge about whether all of Epstein’s victims were told about the deal, as required by law. “Are there more than one victim?” Circuit Court Judge De...

…roll at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He did well in his studies — literature, history and philosophy — but abandoned them after two years. His explanation for not staying on, when I asked him years later, was that with the accelerating activity of the Zionist pioneers, it...

…t of this can be overcome as soon as we recognize it for what it is: outdated comparisons using the more-is-better and money-as-success mind-sets that got us into trouble to begin with. Even so, there is a more profound observation to be made. These doubts invade the mind when n...

… demands for extradition but are unaware of the U.S. government's thinking or plans. Asked if they feared for his life, one of Mr. Gulen's lawyers, Reid Weingarten said, "We do. We're very concerned about his safety." The lawyer said they are discussing whether to ask U.S. author...