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Avi Sagi : existentialism, pluralism, and identity
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ISBN: 9004280812 9789004280816 9789004280809 9004280804 1322872821 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill,

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Avi Sagi is Professor of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. A philosopher, literary critic, scholar of cultural studies, historian and philosopher of halakhah, public intellectual, social critic, and educator, Sagi has written most lucidly on the challenges that face humanity, Judaism, and Israeli society today. As an intertextual thinker, Sagi integrates numerous strands within contemporary philosophy, while critically engaging Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers. Offering an insightful defense of pluralism and multiculturalism, his numerous writings integrate philosophy, religion, theology, jurisprudence, psychology, art, literature, and politics, charting a new path for Jewish thought in the twenty-first century.


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Escaping extermination : Hungarian prodigy to American musician, feminist, and activist
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ISBN: 1557539855 1557539847 1557539863 9781557539861 9781557539854 9781557539847 Year: 2020 Publisher: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press,

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"Written shortly after the close of World War II, Escaping Extermination tells the poignant story of war, survival, and rebirth for a young, already acclaimed, Jewish Hungarian concert pianist, Agi Jambor. From the hell that was the siege of Budapest to a fresh start in America. Agi Jambor describes how she and her husband escaped the extermination of Hungary's Jews through a combination of luck and wit. As a child prodigy studying with the great musicians of Budapest and Berlin before the war, Agi played piano duets with Albert Einstein and won a prize in the 1937 International Chopin Piano Competition. Trapped with her husband, prominent physicist Imre Patai, after the Nazis overran Holland, they returned to the illusory safety of Hungary just before the roundup of Jews to be sent to Auschwitz was about to begin. Agi participated in the Resistance, often dressed as a prostitute in seductive clothes and heavy makeup, calling herself Maryushka. Under constant threat by the Gestapo and Hungarian collaborators, the couple was forced out of their flat after Agi gave birth to a baby who survived only a few days. They avoided arrest by seeking refuge in dwellings of friendly Hungarians, while knowing betrayal could come at any moment. Facing starvation, they saw the war end while crouching in a cellar with freezing water up to their knees. After moving to America in 1947, Agi made a brilliant new career as a musician, feminist, political activist, professor, and role model for the younger generation. She played for President Harry Truman in the White House, performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and became a recording artist with Capitol Records. Unpublished until now but written in the immediacy of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Escaping Extermination is a story of hope, resilience, and even humor in the fight against evil"--


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Computerization of the Archivo General de Indias : strategies and results
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ISBN: 9069842416 Year: 1999 Publisher: Amsterdam ECPA

Age discrimination : an historical and contemporary analysis
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ISBN: 9780521612609 9780521847773 052184777X 0521612608 9780511550560 9781107321908 1107321905 0511550561 9781107316515 1107316510 1139810308 1107152836 1107315530 1299399592 1107317479 1107318343 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Age discrimination is a highly topical issue in all industrialised societies, against a background of concerns about shortening working lives and ageing populations in the future. Based upon detailed research, and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this unique study traces the history of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the USA since the 1930s. It critically analyses the concepts of ageism in social relations and age discrimination in employment. Case-studies on generational equity and health care rationing by age are followed by an analysis of the British government's initiatives against age discrimination in employment. The book then traces the history of the debate on health status and old age, addressing the question of whether working capacity has improved sufficiently to justify calls to delay retirement and extend working lives. It concludes with a detailed examination of the origins and subsequent working of the USA's 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act.


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Cartas de cabildos hispanoamericanos : audiencia de Mexico
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ISBN: 8400059891 8400059883 8400070682 Year: 1990 Volume: 352 Publisher: Sevilla : Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,

Guía de las fuentes en el Archivo General de Indias para el studio de la administración virreinal española en Mexico y en el Perú : 1535-1700
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ISBN: 3412051764 Year: 1977 Publisher: Köln Böhlau

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091 <460 SEVILLA> --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Spanje--SEVILLA --- Mexico --- Peru --- Spain --- History --- -Sources. --- Colonies --- -Administration --- -History. --- 091 <460 SEVILLA> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Spanje--SEVILLA --- Pérou --- República Peruana --- Piru --- República del Perú --- Republic of Peru --- Piruw --- Republiek van Peru --- بيرو --- Bīrū --- جمهورية بيرو --- Jumhūrīyat Bīrū --- Piruw Suyu --- Peru Respublikası --- Peru ka Fasojamana --- Perú Kiōng-hô-kok --- Перу --- Рэспубліка Перу --- Rėspublika Peru --- Republika Peru --- Република Перу --- Peruánská republika --- Republica di u Perù --- Periw --- Gweriniaeth Periw --- Republikken Peru --- Republik Peru --- Peruu --- Peruu Vabariik --- Περού --- Δημοκρατία του Περού --- Dēmokratia tou Perou --- Peruo --- Perua Respubliko --- Peruko Errepublika --- پرو --- Purū --- Jumhūrī-i Purū --- Perun tasavalta --- Lýðveldið Peru --- République du Pérou --- Peiriú --- Pheroo --- Pobblaght ny Peroo --- Pearu --- República do Perú --- Meksiko --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- Meksyk --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Meḳsiḳe --- Mexique (Country) --- Messico --- Méjico --- República Mexicana --- United States of Mexico --- United Mexican States --- Anáhuac --- Espanja --- Spanien --- Hiszpania --- Spanish State --- España --- Estado Español --- Espagne --- Hispania --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanye --- Shpanie --- Reino de España --- Kingdom of Spain --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Espainiako Erresuma --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Espanya --- Espanha --- スペイン --- Supein --- イスパニア --- Isupania --- Archivo General de Indias. --- Seville (Spain). --- Spain. --- Archives of the Indies at Seville --- Archivo de Indias --- Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla --- Archive of the Indies --- General Archive of the Indies --- AGI --- ペルー --- Peru-Bolivian Confederation --- メキシコ --- Mekishiko --- מקסיקו --- Sources. --- Administration --- Maxico --- A.G.I. (Archivo General de Indias) --- AGI (Archivo General de Indias)


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Artificial Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy
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ISBN: 3039218549 3039218557 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Attention in the AI safety community has increasingly started to include strategic considerations of coordination between relevant actors in the field of AI and AI safety, in addition to the steadily growing work on the technical considerations of building safe AI systems. This shift has several reasons: Multiplier effects, pragmatism, and urgency. Given the benefits of coordination between those working towards safe superintelligence, this book surveys promising research in this emerging field regarding AI safety. On a meta-level, the hope is that this book can serve as a map to inform those working in the field of AI coordination about other promising efforts. While this book focuses on AI safety coordination, coordination is important to most other known existential risks (e.g., biotechnology risks), and future, human-made existential risks. Thus, while most coordination strategies in this book are specific to superintelligence, we hope that some insights yield “collateral benefits” for the reduction of other existential risks, by creating an overall civilizational framework that increases robustness, resiliency, and antifragility.


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The republic of love : cultural intimacy in Turkish popular music
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ISBN: 9780226775067 9780226775050 0226775062 0226775054 9780226775074 0226775070 1282894803 9781282894808 9786612894800 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,

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At the heart of The Republic of Love are the voices of three musicians-queer nightclub star Zeki Müren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu-who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950's. Their fame and ubiquity have made them national icons-but, Martin Stokes here contends, they do not represent the official version of Turkish identity propagated by anthems or flags; instead they evoke a much more intimate and ambivalent conception of Turkishness. Using these three singers as a lens, Stokes examines Turkey's repressive politics and civil violence as well as its uncommonly vibrant public life in which music, art, literature, sports, and journalism have flourished. However, Stokes's primary concern is how Müren, Gencebay, and Aksu's music and careers can be understood in light of theories of cultural intimacy. In particular, he considers their contributions to the development of a Turkish concept of love, analyzing the ways these singers explore the private matters of intimacy, affection, and sentiment on the public stage.


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AI AND THE SINGULARITY : A FALLACY OR A GREAT OPPORTUNITY?
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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"AI and the Technological Singularity: A Fallacy or a Great Opportunity" is a collection of essays that addresses the question of whether the technological singularity—the notion that AI-based computers can program the next generation of AI-based computers until a singularity is achieved, where an AI-based computer can exceed human intelligence—is a fallacy or a great opportunity. The group of scholars that address this question have a variety of positions on the singularity, ranging from advocates to skeptics. No conclusion can be reached, as the development of artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, and there is much wishful thinking and imagination in this issue rather than trustworthy data. The reader will find a cogent summary of the issues faced by researchers who are working to develop the field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, artificial general intelligence. The only conclusion that can be reached is that there exists a variety of well-argued positions as to where AI research is headed.

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Information technology industries --- technological Singularity --- intelligence --- emotion --- artificial general intelligence --- artificial intelligence --- computer --- logic --- figure/ground --- computers --- consciousness --- singularity --- self --- futures --- technological singularity --- philosophy --- cosmic evolution --- anthropology --- technical singularity --- non-axiomatic reasoning system --- metasystem transitions --- patterns --- patterning --- cognition --- set theory --- language --- information --- abductive reasoning --- futurism and futurology --- hard science fiction --- models of consciousness --- intelligent machines --- machine replication --- machine evolution and optimization --- Turing test --- embodiment --- competition --- cooperation --- self-organization --- robots --- heterogeneity --- team sports --- artificial intelligence (AI) --- automated journalism --- robo-journalism --- writing algorithms --- future of news --- media ecology --- autogenous intelligence --- bootstrap fallacy --- recursive self-improvement --- self-modifying software --- superintelligence --- skepticism --- cyborg --- evolution --- love --- misinformation --- Technological Singularity --- Accelerated Change --- Artificial (General) Intelligence --- apophenia --- pareidolia --- complexity --- research focused social network --- networked minds --- complexity break --- complexity fallacy --- philosophy of information --- machine learning --- information quality --- information friction --- Artificial Intelligence (AI) --- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) --- Artificial Social Intelligence (ASI) --- social sciences --- embodied cognition --- value alignment --- experience --- phenomenal consciousness --- access consciousness --- percept --- concept --- deep neural networks --- meaning --- understanding --- Singularity --- intuition --- wisdom

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