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  1. Dec 2023
    1. the question is often do people acknowledge that say the basic rules of their society were created out of the human imagination or are there some kind 00:15:49 of objective thing that came from outside let's say from God you look for instance at the history of slavery so you know the 10 Commandments in the in the 10th commandment there is an 00:16:02 endorsement of slavery the 10th commandment says that you should not covet your neighbor's H uh wife or ox or field or 00:16:14 slaves implying that there is nothing wrong with holding slaves it's only wrong if you CET your neighbor's slaves then God is angry with you now because the Ten Commandments uh don't 00:16:27 acknowledge that they were created by humans they don't have any mechanism to amend them and therefore we still have the tenth commandment and nobody has the power to change the to to strike out 00:16:40 slavery from The Ten Commandments now the US Constitution in contrast as everybody points out it was written partly by slaveholders and also endorses 00:16:52 slavery but the genius of the American Founders The Genius of the American institution is that it acknowledges its own that it's the result of of of human 00:17:05 creation it starts with with the people not with I am your God and therefore it includes a mechanism to amend itself
      • for: insight - holy vs human scriptures

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        • Harari touches on an important point here. If some edict is interpreted as written by "God", then it is very difficult or impossible to amend.
        • In contrast, human scriptures such as a country's constitution, a scientific law, rules of a sport, engagement rules of the stock market or an economic system are all created by humans and can be amended
        • Why is gay marriage so volatile a subject? It's because there is one interpretation that holy scripture only condones relationships between a man and a woman.
  2. Aug 2023
  3. Oct 2019
    1. In this article, we use GoogLeNet, an image classification model, to demonstrate our interface ideas because its neurons seem unusually semantically meaningfu

      Any news on why?

  4. Jul 2019
    1. This allows the viewer to differentiate between a book that was unanimously judged middling and one that was loved and hated —these are both

      huh, that's a very neat idea

  5. Sep 2018
    1. from vis.modifiers import Jitter

      Here the code is obsoleted, should change to:

      from vis.input_modifiers import Jitter

    2. from vis.utils.vggnet import VGG16

      Here the vis.utils.vggnet is deleted, should change with keras original package:

      from keras.applications.vgg16 import VGG16