religion
Faith as a thing a society runs on, and what has been tried in its place.
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- ZM
Zvi Mowshowitz quoted
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase
Their wordsContra Alex Tabarrok and others, I do think religious leaders have special insight into questions like consciousness.
- 10 days earlier
- SA
Sam Altman quoted
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI
Their wordsI am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.
- 2 weeks earlier
- BD
Brad DeLong quoted
Economics professor at the University of California
Their wordsPerhaps half of Trump State Department political appointees are such people.
↗Trump’s State Department’s Obsession with What They Fear Are Satanic Bull-Statues: Laugh of the Daybraddelong.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- BD
Brad DeLong quoted
Their wordsWe won't even get into the fact that in the most ancient religions of Canaan and Israel, the bull is primarily a symbol of God Most High, not of the subordinate Ba'al Haddad
↗Trump’s State Department’s Obsession with What They Fear Are Satanic Bull-Statues: Laugh of the Daybraddelong.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 days earlier
- VR
Venkatesh Rao quoted
Writer and consultant on technology
Their wordsA system that combines cosmic stakes, privileged knowledge, personal vocation, and an imperative to act, has a familiar capacity to license extraordinary behavior when ordinary constraints conflict with the mission.
↗EA Safetycontraptions.venkateshrao.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 7 days earlier
- TC
Tyler Cowen quoted
Economist at George Mason University
Their wordsIt still seems in expected value terms, Christ made an enormous difference.
↗My very interesting Conversation with Jared Diamondmarginalrevolution.com
- TC
Tyler Cowen quoted
Their wordsThus, Muhammad is one of the three or four most consequential leaders ever.
↗My very interesting Conversation with Jared Diamondmarginalrevolution.com
- 8 days earlier
- AH
Ava Huang quoted
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology
Their wordsIn fact, like many others, I've lately been hyperfixated on the idea that our problems are astonishingly religious in nature.
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- 9 days earlier
- RB
Ryan Burge quoted
Professor of practice at the Danforth Center on Religion…
Their wordsEmbracing an approach to religious renewal by encouraging fertility doesn’t seem like a strategy that will move the needle in a significant way.
↗Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
- RB
Ryan Burge quoted
Their wordsYes, religion does seem to have an impact on the decision about the number of kids a family will have, but it’s a very minor difference.
↗Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com 4th of 5 in this piece
- RB
Ryan Burge quoted
Their wordsComparing evangelicals to atheists and agnostics – the widest religious contrast the data offers – and controlling for age, race, education, and sex, the gap is about 0.6 children.
↗Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com 5th of 5 in this piece
- 4 days earlier
- RB
Ryan Burge quoted
Their wordsThe United States may no longer be a country of people widely engaging in religious behavior or religious belonging. But it certainly has a whole bunch of religious believers.
↗Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certaingraphsaboutreligion.com 5th of 5 in this piece
- 13 days earlier
- MH
Max Hodak quoted
Co-founder and chief executive of Science
Their wordsthere's no one right answer, but this is a thing where you need a really defined process. There is no right answer, but a wrong answer for sure is not having something that you do very religiously as a company.
↗Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com 5th of 22 in this recording
- 3 months earlier
- SC
Sasha Chapin quoted
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves
Their wordsThe New Age community, where people pretend to be benevolent Teletubbies, but behind the scenes are as money-hungry, power-seeking, and gossip-spreading as anyone.
↗Practice method, not results. METHOD NOT RESULTS.sashachapin.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
- EN
Elizabeth Van Nostrand quoted
Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass
Their wordsCreative destruction is even more built into evangelism than I thought.
↗Church Planting: Lessons from the Commentsacesounderglass.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 6 days earlier
- NS
Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Our readingAssimilation should never require an immigrant to give up their religion or their heritage.
Their wordsImmigrants and their children should not be required to forsake every symbol of the old world, abandon their religion, or forget their heritage.
↗Yes, assimilation is goodnoahpinion.blog 4th of 7 in this piece
- 12 days earlier
- RB
Ryan Burge quoted
Their wordsThe first thing that I always point out with this graph is that most nones are not atheists or agnostics.
↗America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.graphsaboutreligion.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- RB
Ryan Burge quoted
Their wordsThere’s clearly been a numerical decline in the nones. That seems pretty hard to ignore now, and it’s showing up in multiple data sources.
↗America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.graphsaboutreligion.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
- BT
Brandon Taylor quoted
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life
Their wordsDying is the ultimate form of virality. The ultimate anointing in the religion of attention.
↗american symbolismblgtylr.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
- IF
Irving Finkel quoted
Assyriologist at the British Museum
Our readingReligious feeling fluctuates and is usually a response to need, not a steady state of awe.
Their wordsIt’s a kind of conception that’s not actually based on reality, that the individual’s response to religious stimuli fluctuates and is varied and is often a response to need.
↗Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487youtube.com 15th of 27 in this recording
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Irving Finkel quoted
Their wordsBut they didn’t believe in ghosts, they took them for granted. And they didn’t believe in the gods, they took them for granted. This is a different mechanism, because nobody here in the world today takes those things for granted, just the opposite.
↗Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487youtube.com 16th of 27 in this recording
- IF
Irving Finkel quoted
Their wordsI think the big mistake for mankind was the creation of monotheistic religions, because they brought evil into the world. Because if you believe in a monotheistic religion, that means I’m right and you’re wrong if you don’t.
↗Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487youtube.com 18th of 27 in this recording
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Irving Finkel quoted
Their wordsSo this was not only in the Epic of Gilgamesh, but it was also in the Book of Genesis. So what it meant was that it wasn’t… You couldn’t have two stories… It wasn’t two stories about the same thing. It was literary dependence.
↗Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487youtube.com 19th of 27 in this recording
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Irving Finkel quoted
Their wordsAnd the authorities who were there prevented this by drawing up a kind of charter of their history, explaining things from the beginning of time up until now, how it happened and what happened, and it was all intentional. So that is, in my opinion, the driving force behind the Hebrew text.
↗Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487youtube.com 20th of 27 in this recording
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Irving Finkel quoted
Their wordsI think it’s a literary construction out of the reality that people who did survive were on boats.
↗Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487youtube.com 21st of 27 in this recording
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Irving Finkel quoted
Their wordsBefore the flood, the gods had not created death. So I think the noise was a reflex of the fact there were just too many animals, too many people, and they had to do something about it.
↗Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487youtube.com 23rd of 27 in this recording
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Irving Finkel quoted
Their wordsBecause not having religion does not mean not having law or morality or sensitivity or consideration or love or any of those things. None of those things depends on religion, and those are the things which are important.
↗Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487youtube.com 25th of 27 in this recording
- 4 months earlier
- JW
Jack Weatherford quoted
Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Their wordsIt allowed that, but he said, every person has the right to choose their religion. No one can stop them. No one can force them. The idea that it was individual choice, no one in history had ever thought of that, that it belonged to the person.
↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com 12th of 22 in this recording
- 3 weeks earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsReligion is one of those things I've struggled with a lot because I'm not religious. I sort of wish I was. I can now fully appreciate the enormous value having an operating system like that brings not just at the individual level, but rather at a societal level.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 36th of 36 in this recording
- 4 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsAnd clearly, climatism is stepping up as a suitable alternative for the Danes
↗We wash our trash to repent for killing Godworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece