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… throw White Castle hamburgers at the screen. I always thought this was a bad way to waste a good hamburger, but I had one of those moments the other night when watching news reports on debt ceiling discussions. Media outlets have referred to President Reagan’s scolding of Cong...

…hose who suffer. Christians, for example, practice remembering that all people are ultimately united as children of the one creator God, that “the ground is level at the foot of the cross” 144 Page regardless of one’s social status, one’s biological fitness or one’s reproducti...

…se media. Some see the Chinese media as an opportunity to get their views across to the Chinese public, even though, as one think tanker acknowledges, he knows he may be censored in “inappropriate ways.” Another stated that despite the obvious biases, he still gives a lot of inte...

…l not reveal any privileged communications here or any confidential information, but on December 30th, I was aware that one of the preeminent lawyers in the United States, David Boies, had agreed to represent Virginia Roberts. And given the vast amount of business that -- that, y...

…, once found that thinking of BDSM as an orientation was extremely helpful in coming to terms with my BDSM desires. But one thing I don't like about the orientation model now is that it makes us sound like we're apologizing. "Poor little me! It's not my fault I'm straight! Or a d...

…overnment and the governed. A Palestinian government that denies his rights, he insisted, is as offensive as an Israeli one. When I pressed him on whether his colleagues want two states—one Palestinian, one Jewish—or a secular binational one, he seemed strangely agnostic. He said...

…have pointed out economic inefficiencies in slavery, moral criticism aside. | can’t recall mention of this most obvious one. Bill’s maintenance consumption was taste-satisfying cash flow to Bill, and capitalized in his present value to himself. It is pure expense to Phil once Bil...

…equipped to do. But then he paused, looked intently at Rabin, Dan and me, and said: “What I can do is draw on history.” One by one, he cited examples of more than a dozen broadly similar rebellions over the past century, in the Middle East and beyond. “If we were dealing with sim...

… few years. In 2014, what little public talk there was of AI risk tended to be dismissed as Luddite scaremongering, for one of two logically incompatible reasons: (1) AGI was overhyped and wouldn’t happen for at least another century. (2) AGI would probably happen sooner but wa...

…od idea. (See why I love my readers?) I'm sure that others could find this insufferably patronizing, however; if you're one of them, feel free not to read the guides! I'm just trying to offer questions for further thought, and give some insight on why I organized this book the wa...

…een granted a name independently of its particular software implementations, but for the purposes of this book it needs one, so we’ve christened it CogPrime . This fits with the name “OpenCogPrime” that has already been used to describe the software implementation of CogPrime wit...

…n a member of the Nazi Party and an SS officer who could be linked to the deaths of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. (Fun fact: He married his cousin.) He came to America in 1945 and became a citizen in 1955. He was called the “Father of the U.S. space program.” In Jun...

From: Ian Osborne Sent: 9/7/2012 2:40:14 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Subject: Re: Jawbone/Mort What else are you interested in? Peter is best for currency; maybe Reid Hoffman (fatty at LinkedIn) or Dave Morin (Path) or Drew Houston (Dropbox). I do believe China...

…language, but not race. When do things change for race? Kinzler carried out another series of experiments on race with one group of 2.5 year old children and a second group of 5-year olds. Though the methods were somewhat different, they both focused on the child’s preferences,...

…earn the English language as well. Another example showing children’s innate ability to learn is Nicolas Negroponte’s ‘One Laptop per Child’ program, which gives computers to children in remote villages around the world. The laptops are a triumph of cost engineering but are full...