•4 min read•Philosophy
An Open Letter to God
Reflecting on divine communication, decentralized consciousness, and the trust that humanity will choose compassion.
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•3 min read•Politics
An Open Letter to Benjamin Netanyahu
The tragedy unfolding in Gaza is searing to the human conscience. We appear genetically wired to recoil from such suffering and to reach, however haltingly, for compassion and peace.
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•4 min read•Politics
An Open Letter to Volodymyr Zelensky
Your meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice-President J. D. Vance in the White House on February 28, 2025 was a puzzling, thought-provoking spectacle.
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•5 min read•Politics
An Alternate Manifesto for New York City
At least 80% of New Yorkers consider cost of living, housing affordability, and public safety as serious problems. However, the manifestos of the two frontrunners in the Democratic mayoral race largely recycled yesterday's solutions to...
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•4 min read•Politics
An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump
If the Abraham Accords had been implemented in both letter and spirit, the Middle East might already be well on the road to peace. Instead, the region is dotted with powder kegs that could ignite at any moment.
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•3 min read•Politics
An Open Letter to Ayatollah Khamenei
I write with a heavy heart after the devastating airstrikes of 13 June 2025, in which Israeli aircraft hit dozens of Iranian military and nuclear sites, causing great loss of life--including senior commanders and scientists--in a...
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•2 min read•Politics
An Open Letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping
A man finds the ruins of an old city near his hometown. Curious about his ancestors, he begins to excavate. In the ruins, he finds evidence of architecture, engineering, art, and poetry that indicated a civilization led by a community of...
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•2 min read•Politics
An Open Letter to Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman
There are people who may resent your country for its role in spreading Wahhabism across the Muslim world, but most of them remain unaware of the extensive efforts you've undertaken to reverse such policies. This transformation is not...
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•2 min read•Politics
An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV
As you embraced the papacy upon your election, facing a historic crowd at a historic time, the expressions on your face indicated overwhelm. With your lips sealed, you pulled in three strong vortexes of air through your nose, before...
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•2 min read•Technology
The Future of the Smartphone
As artificial intelligence gets exponentially better, disharmony in human intelligence would result in exponentially greater consequences due to the leverage provided by the former.
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•2 min read•Technology
Modeling the Self with Neuronal Tokens
Achieving true superintelligence requires generative AI models capable of deeply modeling both human and non-human agents. While state-of-the-art generative models like GPT-4 can already parse emotions, sentiments, and psychological...
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•1 min read•Technology
Personal Superintelligence is Here
The search for next generation artificial intelligence is on with several outstanding teams pursuing diverse visions for the development of superintelligence. But it is already here.
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•3 min read•Technology
Semantic Graph Memory Inspired by Neuroscience
Large Language Models (LLMs) are incredibly powerful, yet they face a major limitation: a fixed context window that restricts how much information they can "remember." This forces developers to carefully choose what to include in each...
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•3 min read•Technology
Building the “House of Wisdom”: Behind the Scenes of a Knowledge Integration App
This post about an exciting experiment I worked on last year: "House of Wisdom" --an AI-driven application designed for contextually rich conversations grounded in books, research reports, and laws, with answers accompanied by Mermaid...
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•1 min read•Neuroscience
Neural Networks and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Exploring whether artificial neural networks can help us understand the emergence of subjective experience in biological systems.
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•1 min read•Politics
The Ethics of AI Governance in Democratic Systems
How should democratic societies regulate artificial intelligence while preserving innovation and protecting civil liberties?
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•1 min read•Philosophy
Phenomenology in the Digital Age
Revisiting Husserl and Merleau-Ponty's ideas about embodied experience in an era of virtual reality and digital interfaces.
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•5 min read•Culture
The Sims
Researchers at Google DeepMind and Stanford University published a paper this year demonstrating how computational software agents can simulate believable human behavior. They created a sandbox environment, inspired by a video game called...
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•3 min read•Philosophy
Unity
The events unfolding now were set into motion long ago. We may not be able to stop them but we can still build an inclusive vision for a better future.
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•10 min read•Philosophy
Psychohistory Reloaded
In the Foundation series of Sci-Fi books written by Isaac Asimov, the main protagonist Dr. Harry Seldan is an expert in psychohistory which uses history, psychology, sociology, and statistical mathematics to predict the future of...
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•2 min read•Politics
Peace is Jerusalem
Most civilizations have encountered the dream to harmonize minds at scale but found it to be notoriously hard.
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