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… core difference between the two approaches is that in the CEV vision, the extrapolation and coherentization are to be done by a highly intelligent, highly specialized software program, whereas in the approach suggested here, these are to be carried out by collective activity of...

Under army regulations, training recruits got a five-day leave every few months during fironut. My first one came a bit later than usual, due to Rotem. But in April 1960, shortly before the Passover holiday, I headed back to Mishmar Hasharon. Despite my minor triumph of desert na...

…ay? Don’t rush—think about it for a few minutes. If still blocked, fill in the five “doing” spots with the following: one place to visit one thing to do before you die (a memory of a lifetime) one thing to do daily one thing to do weekly one thing you’ ve always wanted to le...

…um wouldn't be in the top 25 highest prices" of houses for sale in this area, Porter says. "Palm Beach real estate has gone from nothing going on to nothing left to sell." Porter is giving me a tour of the so-called Billionaire's Row, a stretch of South Ocean Boulevard on the isl...

…Dan’s division was key in staunching the Egyptian advance in the first days of the war, later inflicted heavy losses on one of Sadat’s armored forces and was part of the final push on the other side of the canal. And, of course, during Entebbe. Dan had sharp tactical instincts, a...

…'s promises soak-the-rich tax bill) and the "Equalization of Opportunity Act" to prevent people from starting more than one business (to give other people a chance). My personal favorite, the "Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Act," aims to restrict cut-throat competition between firms and thus s...

Similarly, there are one or two men in my life that I'm attracted to but don't want a sexual connection with at all. So I try not to see them unless I feel inoculated: I don't hang out with them unless I'm sure I can distract myself with my feelings about another man. A lot of p...

…s for defense, education, infrastructure, and R&D spending, which today account for 32% of USA Inc. spending (excluding one-time items), down dramatically from 69% forty years ago. - It's notable that CBO’s projection from 10 years ago (in 1999) showed Federal revenue sufficient...

…imed responsibility for the Saturday attack , which left at least 39 people dead and dozens more wounded, calling the lone gunman who carried out the massacre a "heroic soldier of the caliphate." The suspect had yet to be named and located by Turkish authorities early Tuesday. T...

… “Jeff, you’ve got to do better than that,” she told Jeffrey Feltman, the assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, one day when he presented a shopworn idea. With USAID undergoing an overhaul, she listens to every reform report, down to the details of how chlorine tablets fo...

… a very rich tradition; it used to be that 10% of your income would be kept aside for a cause. During those times more money went into either building temples or temples of learning, which are the schools and colleges. Pre-1990, Indian corporates were not giving that much, includ...

…l Holmes, Jr. viewed the role of the lawyer as a predictor of future legal decisions and trends.’’” But the Talmud cautioned that prophecy ended with the destruction of the second temple and that he/she who tries to prophecy the future is either a fool or a naive. Or asa contempo...

…and a disdain for alcohol. Turkish bureaucrats and businesspeople complain that embracing these practices to prove that one is a “good Muslim” has become a precondition for getting government promotions and contracts. Meanwhile, the AKP-run media watchdog recently scolded a telev...

…e forces of Sunni moderation that Riyadh wants to lead. Iran, too, was starting to see a compelling case for action as one Western-backed regime after another appeared to be on the ropes. It ramped up its rhetoric and began using state media and the regional Arab-language satell...

…of the core ideas of this philosophy are laid out in Chapter 3, though that chapter is by no means a thorough summary. One way to summarize some of the most important yet commonsensical parts of the patternist philosophy of mind, in an AGI context, is to list five words: percept...