Why Did Intelligence Stop?
Did the tendency of intelligent men to choose beautiful women lead to a slower evolution of intelligence? Can the history of the Jewish people be explained as a history of creating a different species, in which the criteria for natural selection are different and revolve more around intelligence, and therefore it breaks through beyond the human, and arouses enormous hostility? On the Jewish society of learners as the first historical attempt to create superhuman intelligence, out of a religious motivation to decipher the word of God
The Principle of Superiority as Surpassing the Pleasure and Reality Principles
When the secular need for a sense of superiority over the religious conflicts with the need for a story - the need for superiority prevails, not to its benefit. Satire is a type of story that is a weapon against another story, and therefore those without a story make excessive use of it, since there is no way to attack them back. The result is vulnerability to the eruption of monstrous and anti-religious meta-narratives, like fascism and communism. On the denial of the secular-religious dimension of the Holocaust: extreme modern Nazi secularism against the oldest religion
Conservative Politics
10 notes on the human condition. How does it happen that the right is correct and the left is wrong - precisely because the right is bad and the left is good? Problems where good efforts lead to good results were solved long ago or are being solved quickly, and directions where bad efforts lead to bad results were abandoned long ago, or are quickly abandoned if they are new directions. Only problems remain where good efforts add up to a bad result, and where bad efforts add up to a good result. Therefore, both the left and the right are important, because sometimes altruism is egoism - and vice versa
An Act of Ugliness
Kahneman's happiness research found that aesthetics, while not affecting happiness like other parameters, unlike them, it affects it in the long term - one doesn't get used to it. One doesn't get used to a sea view, unlike winning the lottery, which has no long-term effect on happiness. Aesthetic culture - very far from Israel - was an essential part of the lifestyle in the ancient world, and contributed to shaping society in the long term more than any law or leader. This is the secret of classical cultures, which were much more aesthetic cultures than modern ones, which revolve around ethics
Critique of the Power of Painting
A hidden connection runs between painting and mathematics - it's about an abstract ability (even in the most realistic painting - the abstraction is to forget what you're painting and paint what you see: not to paint a woman but a shape and a stain). Therefore, they are perceived as masculine professions, like philosophy. But in fact, these are two opposite directions of abstraction: one analytical and the other synthetic. Therefore, the problem of computer vision is the bottom of the artificial intelligence problem, while the problem of computer proof is its highest part
The Movement of Specifically
As an alternative to the progression of intellectual history through antithesis and synthesis, religious logic progresses through two other operators: also and specifically. Thus, religiosity is expanded to new areas and then specifically established in them. For example, from a movement that adds the book also to religion, Judaism became a movement that sees religion specifically in the book. From seeing prayer also as intention, and the spread of religious commandment also into the heart, the perception became specifically as intention - and specifically as duties of the heart. Soon, the entry of religion also into the world of computers will become a perception of specifically in computers - and there will be the religious domain
The Peak of Individualism
The idea of the individual, namely the indivisible, like the idea of the atom a hundred years ago, is facing a big bang. Once the forces within the individual are released, for example dopamine and different parts of the brain, there can be a completely new motivation of people, and a new social energy source. Until then, feminism is breaking down the molecule of society - the family - and then the chemical bond itself of couplehood. In parallel, the aging of the population will contribute to the breakdown of an even more basic chemical bond - parenthood
Biologization of the Inanimate
Which meta-metaphor will replace language in the philosophy and spiritual world of the 21st century? On the surface, it seems that technology is the buzzword of the era. But a deeper look will reveal deeper layers of meaning that are preferred candidates to stand at the center of the new world of concepts, such as organization, learning systems, and "evolutions"
The Capitalism of Meaning
No historical direction continues forever but eventually returns in a pendulum movement backward, and so does the sexual and feminist revolution. A series of phenomena can cause feminism to be remembered as a historical episode, perhaps even positive, but dead. The traditional sources of power of the twentieth century - money and sex - will be emptied of their meaning, while inequality grows dramatically. The result will be a world where power is meaningfulness, and it is controlled by a narrow and very masculine technological elite, which alone has a significant impact on the world
Against the Grain
Even the philosophy of science can be replaced with a theory of learning, which will replace "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". On one hand, science is not a certain, timeless logical inference, and on the other hand, it is not a collection of incomparable paradigms. On the contrary, it is an evolutionary development, that is, a learning system in time, which is adapting to reality on one hand, and on the other hand is increasing in its level of complexity. Mammals are not the paradigm after reptiles, but are built upon them, and it was not possible to skip directly from amphibians, and their adaptation to reality is not arbitrary - but also not tight. All this is in accordance with deep learning, where there are many layers to each paradigm