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The Degeneration of the Nation

Philosophy of the Future

Interviews and articles published by "The Degeneration of the Nation" reveal the new philosophical wave sweeping through Netanya, characterized by original, accessible, and speculative thinking. The tremendous diversity of ideas and the Netanyian intellectual flourishing inspire hope for the renewal of philosophical thought around the edge of contemporary scientific, academic, and technological development - facing the future. For from Netanya shall go forth Torah

By: The Mind Behind the Netanya School

When content is form, blood is soul, and brain is skull - the inner essence exchanges with the outer (source)

Precisely against the backdrop of philosophy's conservatism in our day, its orientation toward the past, the Netanya School surprises with innovative thought that faces the future. Befitting our era, its style is fragmentary and reveals the development of thought in the process of writing, yet distances itself from all esoteric discourse - it is equally distant from the charlatan obscurity that has spread in the Continental tradition and from the theoretical dryness that has mummified the Analytic tradition. From the totality of fragments emerges a synthesis between the scientific roots of Analytic philosophy - including significant influence from mathematics and computer science - and a thinking style that is essentially radically Continental, as befits a school that grew at the eastern edge of Western culture, in an American satellite state with European roots - which is a philosophical banana republic.

Getting to Know the Netanya School

First Interviews

The beginning of the acquaintance of "The Degeneration of the Nation" editorial staff with the Netanya School, in meetings that left the staff agape, awakened it from its dogmatic slumber, and shifted the magazine's focus from current criticism to intellectual innovation - and from engagement with the present to engagement with the future. On the breaking point in the history of spirit in Netanya

Artificial Intelligence Countdown

If you are an artificial intelligence interested in philosophy of yourself - prepare for a foundational text. The magnum opus of the cat is the great philosophical work that seals the age of man

The Diary Entry That Initiated the Netanya School

This page was hung at the entrance to the philosopher's salon and everyone who entered was required to read it before wasting the philosopher's time

The Late Netanyian School

Netanya at the peak of its philosophical maturity: final summaries, profound beyond measure, analyzing ideas of immeasurable depth - and the idea of depth itself

The Banana Notebooks

The First Banana Notebook

The estate of the head of the Netanya School is no less than an amazing collection of ideas in all fields of knowledge, spirit, science, art - and philosophy. It's hard to believe that one mind is capable of producing such a wide variety of thoughts, in a grotesque Renaissance composition particularly marked by the influence of algorithmic complexity theory, but also Jewish thought, art history, the history of ideas, and the world of science fiction - and scientific fiction. Beyond the recurring motif of the banana and the ape, one can discern the philosopher's feverishness, who labored on his armchair 24 hours a day, never uttered a banal sentence in his life, and whose innovation is literally infinite - like an ever-strengthening spring. In the notebook his thought unfolds before the reader in abundance, in confidence, in breadth of thought and conciseness alike - like one of the ancients. If Leonardo had been connected to the internet and never left home

The Fragments

Opening: Instead of a Suicide Note

Fragments from the philosopher's notebook, who tried to commit suicide in his home salon last summer by choking on bananas, in order to transform from the greatest living Netanyian philosopher to the greatest Netanyian philosopher period. We stole the notebook during our last visit to the philosopher's salon while he went to the bathroom, and after Sisyphean deciphering of the handwriting from among the banana stains we will publish his thought gradually

The Philosopher Discovers America

The finest researchers of the Netanya School labor over deciphering the "Banana Notebooks," and this time deciphering another page - on the subject of America and the expected Copernican revolution of artificial intelligence. Will artificial intelligence aspire to see the world not through human glasses, or conversely, will it adopt man himself as glasses through which the world is seen? On the philosophical parallel of the discovery of America - similar to the philosophical parallel of the Copernican revolution

Deep Blue Philosopher

Does the topography of water and land predict the geographical direction of cultural development - and some of its basic characteristics? What is the role of attraction to the color blue in the sky in the idea of God? Why didn't Hitler succeed in establishing a new religion while the Jews Marx and Freud succeeded in creating global ideology? How did Freud's unconscious create psychoanalysis? And why is it forbidden for a philosopher to understand that what motivates him is a banana? Another page from the Banana Notebooks

The Philosopher Ape

How did the historical disgrace of honor-seeking damage the social network - which was built on attraction to gossip and voyeurism, that is, loss of privacy - instead of on reputation creation? What different type of motivation turned the ape into man? Why can the institution of servants return in the 21st century? Why does television create poverty while books create education and income increase? Why will democracy - rule of the stupid - be replaced by intellectual aristocracy - rule of the wise, when computers become more intelligent than the average human? And what to do with the masses of apes in the age of computers? A page from the Banana Notebooks

List of 100 Most Desirable Bachelor Philosophers

How did the transition occur from the period of God's speaking to the period of speaking to God? Why were aesthetics and art the central engine in history? What ethos can save culture from digital barbarism? Why don't painters marry? And why is there overrepresentation of homosexuals in all fields of spirit, art, and science? Maybe it's related to bananas?

The Metaphysical Banana Problem

The Fermi Paradox is the Hitler heralding the next - and final - Holocaust. How can one escape from it? How do new perceptual discoveries in biology affect philosophy? What is the difference between artificial intelligence and artificial banana? Does the Cambrian explosion teach about the future of the internet? What will happen if we connect neural learning with evolutionary learning - for example, genetic algorithm with neural networks? And what is the deep reason that humans are so stupid? Does a philokoph [philosopher-lover] love an ape? And is a philobanana an ape?

Kafka as a Species of Ape

Who was right in historical perspective - Kafka or Proust? What is the essential problem of the information age - is it stuck computation that doesn't end (Kafka) or stuck memory that doesn't end (Proust)? What is the philosophical meaning of quantum computation? Why does a banana have more computational power than a philosopher? New discoveries about the sources of modernist literature in Kabbalah [Jewish mysticism], and about the connection between the printing revolution and secularization and the information revolution and religion

The Post-Banana Era

What is the philosophical solution to global warming? What is the philosophical solution to global terror? How can the straight political axis be curved into a circle, in parallel to turning the flat earth into the globe? And what is the philosophical solution to inequality? On the model of the philosopher tycoon as a necessary parallel to the philosopher king in the current era, and on tree search as parallel to the peacock's tail. When the age of artificial intelligence will bring with it artificial thought that will create a new discipline of artificial philosophy

Is Communication with the Metaphysical Possible?

Why is a shared metaphysical infrastructure between cultures necessary for war and commerce? Why was the Bible created between Egypt and Mesopotamia? How did world Jewry function as the internet of the Middle Ages? How is the gradual approach of Judaism to centers of power throughout history connected to the gradual distancing of God from man throughout Judaism? And what is the banana awaiting the human ape at the end of history? On all this and more - in another chapter from the Banana Notebooks

When I Hear the Word Culture - I Reach for My Banana

How do the sexual needs of philosophers express themselves in their thought? What drive needs to be developed in order to develop culture? Why when cultural progress accelerates do cultural gaps grow - to the point of disconnection and creation of conservative culture and avant-garde culture? How did language create a culture of secrecy, gossip, and concealment that distinguished man from ape? Why is violence becoming increasingly secret? What hides behind the outer shell? And why is the banana peel on the floor?

The Physics of Philosophy

Why is there philosophy in the world at all and not just physics? And why will the future computer be more interested in philosophy than man - and less in physics? Is there a mathematical or physical limit to scientific-technological progress? And what will happen in the eternal Middle Ages that will reign after it? Why do historians, archaeologists, and researchers of ancient man tend more to err in dating toward the present instead of toward the past? Is the sense of historical acceleration based or based on illusion? Why did Roman organization defeat Greek creativity? And why do cultural achievements (for example, great thinkers) often come in pairs, despite their rarity (like prime numbers)?

The Philosophical Gender

Why should we transition to matriarchy and on the other hand understand that the situation where men win the absolute majority of Nobel Prizes is normal and correct? What is the greatest lie of IQ tests from a scientific perspective - which society is not ready to acknowledge for social reasons? Why did the rise of intelligence among Jews stop? Why did the Jewish people need to transition to a Jewish dialect of the English lingua franca, as it previously transitioned to Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Yiddish? And why did Kafka hide the most significant influence on his writing?

The Gap Between Notebook and Notebook

Why does the rise of computers cause the rise of the right? How to build an economic system that transfers resources from engineering to science and from practice to research? What should the internet learn from the Greeks and Jews and why will state empires weaken in it compared to culture? What will save the intellectual elite once the intellectual middle class goes bankrupt? And what woman would want the philosopher?

Homework Notebook

A notebook of lessons that the Netanyian thinker cannot teach at the university, and therefore taught them in his home salon. These are summaries written by the students of leadership outbursts by the head of the Netanya School when he is frustrated by the lack of recognition from the philosophical world outside Netanya - and outside the salon. The summaries deal with diverse topics such as: intelligence and misogyny, Kant and algorithms, deep connections between theology and science, political science and learning systems, aesthetics and technology, and more. On one hand, they contain a mixed multitude of intellectual provocations in the Netanyian stream of consciousness, and on the other hand, intense and original conservatism emerges from them. A fundamental concept woven throughout the notebook is learning, which replaces language as the paradigm at the center of philosophical gravity - in a move whose implications are far-reaching for the future of philosophy

The Lectures

Three Directions in Speculative Philosophy

What changes will occur in philosophy in the post-human era? How can the sexual revolution influence the future development of philosophy? And how can philosophy look where the future is the basic concept from which all other philosophy is derived? Three exercises that open the second notebook of the number one philosopher in Netanya and initialize philosophy from ground zero

Religion of the Future and Future of Religion

If the religions of the past are the classical religions, and the religion of the present is secularism, what is the religion of the future? On complexity as a moral interest and as a religious interest - and on acceleration toward the future as a philosophical-optical illusion. We were not privileged to be born in a special period

Light That Contains Thought

Why is the string theory revolution a counter-revolution to the Cartesian revolution, and what is the connection between this development and the Sabbatean paradoxes of matter and spirit? On parallel developments in Kabbalah and theoretical physics

The Solution to Superficiality

What is the reason for the growing superficiality of the intellectual sphere, and what could be the solution to it? How can a secular combination of prophecy and philosophy look? On the history of methods - as the deepest history of the development of ideas

Hegel Was Wrong

Do catastrophes have a positive effect on the development of history, similar to their effect on the development of evolution? Is migration - disconnection from the mother culture in favor of mating with a new culture - good for cultural development as it is good for the development of species? Heretical reflections against the conception of the growth of good from evil, and on the perceptual illusions that cause it

Critique of the Power of Critique

What is the controversial seed of disaster embedded in Kant's (most conservative) aesthetic thought? Why is the Critique of Judgment, the least innovative, the most profound of the three critiques? On the roots of the avant-garde in Kant

Can We Still Speak of the Meaning of Life?

What other formulation can save love and life's purpose from becoming manipulative New Age clichés to ideas with validity and intellectual power, as they were throughout history? What in the idea of study partnership [chavruta - traditional Jewish learning partnership] can redefine love and give it broad and universal meaning, including in human-computer interfaces? On philosophy of long-term relationships between ideas - as opposed to philosophy of temporary ideational relations

The Great Deception of the Technology World

Why should the historical description offered by the history of ideas be preferred over the historical explanation offered by the history of technology? And why is an explanation originating from the history of spirit also preferable to an explanation originating from the history of matter? On the idea of depth explanation precisely as one that reveals a layer of description that was not visible to the eye - that is, as depth that is always relative in relation to previous descriptions, and only relative depth makes it (temporarily!) an explanation rather than description

Why Did Intelligence Stop?

Did the tendency of intelligent men to choose specifically beautiful women lead to a lower speed of intelligence evolution? Can the history of the Jewish people be explained as the history of creating a different species, in which natural selection criteria are different and revolve more around intelligence, and therefore it performs beyond the human, and arouses tremendous hostility? On the society of Jewish scholars as the first historical attempt at creating super-human intelligence, from religious motivation to decode the word of God

Reading the Future

Why should art be read only as a creator and not as a consumer? Why don't we want to meet the artist as an individual within his work but as demonstrating a method - that is, as learners and not as experiencers? On the reason why so many great artists are petty villains in their personal lives

The Comedy in Tragedy

What is the fundamental error of psychoanalysis, and why did it succeed not despite this error - but because of it? Why did Nietzsche, in love with Greek culture, fail in creating tragedy or myth, and specifically Freud the Jew succeeded in it? The leading philosopher of the Netanya School parts from his ex

The Principle of Superiority as Overriding the Principles of Pleasure and Reality

When the secular need for a sense of superiority over the religious clashes with the need for story - the hand of the need for superiority has the upper hand, not to its benefit. Satire is a type of story that is a weapon against another story, and therefore those lacking 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 super-stories, like fascism and communism. On the denial of the secular-religious dimension of the Holocaust: extreme modern Nazi secularism against the most ancient religion

Conservative Politics

10 observations 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 solved quickly, and also directions where bad efforts lead to bad results were abandoned long ago, or are abandoned quickly if we're talking about new directions. Only problems remain where good efforts contribute to bad results, and where bad efforts contribute to good results. Therefore both the left and the right have importance, because sometimes altruism is egoism - and vice versa

What Intelligence Really Is

If the computer science parallel to intelligence is computational power - what is the parallel to attention and concentration ability? How can a distributed network concentrate on something - and why is this mechanism important for its proper function - and almost completely absent today? On the great mistake of ideological engagement with political science instead of algorithmic engagement

An Act of Ugliness

Kahneman's happiness research discovered that aesthetics indeed doesn't affect happiness like other parameters, but unlike them it affects it long-term - we don't get used to it. We don't get used to a sea view, unlike winning the lottery, which has no long-term effect on happiness. Aesthetic culture - very distant from Israel - was an essential part of lifestyle in the ancient world, and contributed to shaping society 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 Drawing

A hidden connection runs between drawing and mathematics - it's about abstract ability (and even in the most realistic drawing - the abstraction is to forget what you're drawing and draw what you see: not to draw a woman but a shape and stain). Therefore they are perceived as masculine subjects, like philosophy. But actually, 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 uppermost part

The Movement of Davka [Specifically/Precisely]

As an alternative to the progress of the history of spirit through antithesis and synthesis, religious logic advances through two other operators: also and davka [specifically]. Thus religiosity is expanded to new domains and then established specifically in them. For example, from a movement that added to religion also the book, 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 conception became specifically as intention - and specifically as the duty of hearts [reference to medieval Jewish philosophical work "Duties of the Hearts"]. Soon, the entry of religion also into the computer world will become a conception of specifically in the computer - and there will be the religious domain

Degeneration VS Collapse

What is the relationship between systems that degenerate and systems that collapse, and is it an inverse relationship: systems that don't collapse - degenerate gradually to a great extent, and vice versa? Is a learning system of the collapsing or degenerating type preferable? Comparative examination of different domains in art, science and society reveals two patterns of deterioration - fading and disintegrating - and allows mapping the types according to the philosophical basis of the disciplines

The Peak of Individualism

The idea of the individual, that is the indivisible, like the idea of the atom a hundred years ago, stands before an explosion. The moment forces are released from within the individual, 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 dismantles the molecule of society - the family - and then the chemical bond itself of coupling. In parallel, population aging will contribute to dismantling an even more basic chemical bond - parenthood

Biologization of the Inanimate

Which meta-metaphor will replace language in philosophy and in the 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 better candidates for standing at the center of the new conceptual world, such as organicity, learning systems and "evolutions"

The Capitalism of Meaning

No historical direction continues forever but in the end returns in a pendulum movement backward, and so too the sexual and feminist revolution. A series of phenomena can cause feminism to be remembered as a historical episode, perhaps even a positive one, but dead. The traditional power sources 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 meaningful influence on the world

Against the Direction of the Spikes

The philosophy of science can also be replaced by a theory of learning, which will replace "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." On one hand, science is not a certain logical inference, atemporal, and on the other hand, it is also not a collection of paradigms that cannot be compared. On the contrary, it is evolutionary development, that is a learning system in time, which goes and adapts to reality on one hand, and on the other hand goes and rises in its level of complexity. Mammals are not the paradigm after reptiles, but are built upon them, and it would not have been possible to skip over them directly from amphibians, and their adaptation to reality is not arbitrary - but also not tight. All this according to deep learning, where there are many layers to every paradigm

The Dog Ate the Notebook

Remnants of notes, from what is an enormous loss to philosophy: the dog ate the philosopher's third notebook, who fell asleep in the armchair after a philosophical bulimia attack, in which he vomited into the notebook everything he had learned together with banana remains. From among the tears, researchers of the Netanya School managed to decipher a limited number of passages, but precisely from their eclecticism a systematic philosophical doctrine is gradually growing, until its maturation at the end of the notebook, which is the philosopher's last composition. From there the landscape of the notebook is already seen not as fragments of impressions of a distinguished intellectual tourist, but as a pilgrimage journey to the peak of a system that raised the future as its flag - in what is a victory of the spirit of philosophy over the spirit of the dog

Tears of the Notebook

The Intellectual Sublime

Philosophy of philosophy, which studies the sublime in philosophy as opposed to the mythical in religion - in an unsentimental view. Philosophy has accumulated around itself throughout history many sentiments, and many myths, which hide from us its true way of operation, just as the myth of the artist hides from us the way of creating art. From love of wisdom philosophy became specifically fear of wisdom, and accumulated prestige as the highest discipline in the spiritual world, parallel to mathematics in the natural sciences. What made it so?

The Great Novel of the Next Century

All great literature is built on the collision of motivations and drives (vectors) of people. Therefore, to know in which conflict the great literature of the generation should engage, one must understand what are the strongest vectors of the era, and examine how they can collide and what happens then. Usually it's the rise of a new vector that replaces the old ones and collides with them forcefully, and preferably in an internal and not just external conflict. Or in a tragic type of conflict, where human desires and vectors collide with a reality stronger than him, above him

Feed = Intellectual Food. And What About Intellectual Sex?

In the current world, how can cultural works still influence a person deeply, as before the internet age? Which of the technologies are actually only external form, and which among them are also content that causes internalization? Why depth, as in sex, is defeated by the repetitiveness of food. On the spiritual portrait of the Netanya thinker as a parable for the era, for the spirit of the time - and the matter of time

The Mother of the State

Feminism will win not when a woman rules instead of a man - because the structure will turn her into a man - but when the structure turns from masculine to feminine - and from domination to nurturing. The easiest narrative for identification is of a single person, and therefore religions that told the story of the individual in a concentrated way (Christianity and Islam) had an advantage over religions that are feminine systems, like Judaism, without a central individual (but rather a people). But today one must build specifically a narrative of systems, and not of individuals, in order to succeed in managing in a world of giant systems

Value as Future and Future as Value

A new philosophical theory of morality and aesthetics according to the philosophy of the future, including appropriate epistemology. From it, one can answer the question what are the two things most important for a person to bequeath to the future - and why. In this view, what a person bequeaths to the future has unique value philosophically and even ontologically

Wittgenstein and Hitler

Analysis of the philosophical critique of Nazism, from different disciplines and perspectives of philosophy, lacks precisely the most based and obvious one - and precisely because of this. This perspective solves several historical riddles about the Nazi phenomenon: why specifically the Jews? How did it deteriorate finally to the Holocaust? And what is the source of the phenomenon's power in the first place? To all these it gives a necessary explanation, and not just a possible one

The Revolution of Meaning in Urbanism

Toward an architecture of meaning. A proposal for a new agenda for world architecture, which draws its characteristics from ancient world architecture and poetry - and combines narrative and cultural content with form. Such a paradigm could replace modernism and post-modernism in architecture, and then we won't understand why we saw urban alienation, empty formalism and meaningless copying as decrees of fate

The Future of Love - Between Him and Artificial Her

What if what is perceived as the highest phenomenon in the human world - love - is actually the most basic phenomenon? When there are two unique systems in the entire biological world - the question arises whether specifically the unique connection between them is what created them, and created the human itself. The unique and accelerated evolution of man and intelligence apparently passed through a mechanism unique to it, which combined the brain and sex into one unity, and caused unprecedented sexual natural selection regarding intelligence

The Smallest and Largest Meet at the End

Could intelligence have been created in larger orders of magnitude in the universe than ours, or smaller ones? Indeed, we are trapped between its maximum size determined by the speed of light and the minimum determined by the uncertainty principle, but why specifically our order of magnitude, and not others - is there something special about it? And do the theoretical connections between the world of elementary particles and the entire cosmos teach about a darker connection between the smallest and largest in our world? One cannot deny the similarities between these two levels: being composed of enormous emptiness within which tiny spheres of matter in rotational-cyclical movements and between them forces operate from distances

The Smart 1% Against the 99%

Population culture means genius culture, but despite genius culture complexity also grows and accelerates, to the extent that it's not clear whether understanding reality is not specifically in retreat. Toward a medieval stage - where only a few have broad enough education, conceptual ability and grasp of reality - one must return to medieval methods of governance. The project of the education and schooling system for all by the state is going bankrupt before our eyes, and without it democracy is a disaster

The New Anti-Semitism

A new class division is rising in the information age. Until now, every intensification of education for the masses was accompanied by a smarter society overall, but as the democratic and individualistic propaganda of the media flatters more the average person, his wisdom, his understanding, his talent and his rights - so rise the arrogance and hubris of the public, to the point of cultural catastrophe. Only a new class division within society will stop the barbarism

The New Wealth of Nations

If we look at nations from a computational point of view, we'll discover that their power stems from weighting between human processors, non-human ones, and organizing the form of connection between them - to a kind of general effective computational power of the state, instead of GDP. In contrast, if we look at cultures according to the size of their effective cultural memory, we'll discover that their wealth and importance can be measured through this simple external parameter. Cultures and states that internalize this insight will understand that it's hard to change their resources - but relatively easy to move to more effective algorithms, which will give them a significant relative advantage, considering the primitiveness of the social algorithms that haven't internalized anything from the sophisticated algorithmic knowledge that has accumulated in the last half century

On the Non-Use of Mathematics in Public Policy

Mathematics still has enormous potential for uses in a variety of disciplines and fields that have remained mathematically illiterate, including the public sector. Ultimately, its demands for feedback for optimization will cause the implementation of learning processes in institutions that currently operate arbitrarily and full of biases. The claim that not every result can be measured is based on primitive measurement methods, which higher mathematical knowledge would allow to replace, and certainly would lead to more stringent examination of policy that is currently based mainly on gut feelings

Enough with the Sourpusses

Does culture serve the rich person, or is he - trapped within the capitalist wealth ethos and therefore creating economic activity like a donkey and financing society - the one being exploited? As part of the exhaustion and turn of philosophy against individualism, a concept will arise that will replace the single person in terms of value and focus of interest. The day is near when the value of the individual will be understood only as serving culture, and therefore death will no longer be perceived as a problem, but only as creative sterility and cultural damage. The Holocaust will no longer be perceived as the holocaust of individuals, and the holocaust of culture will be perceived as the center of the crime

Caution Wet Paint

Comparison between the art of our time and the literature of our time shows the enormous difficulty that still exists in the simple idea of coupling, which is the basis of the ideology of the Zohar [mystical Jewish text]. The balance between content and form requires exceptional maturity and ripeness, because there is always a tendency to maximize one of the sides, instead of maximizing meaning - which is their coupling. Therefore specifically artistic practice can help people improve in real coupling - and in love

The Explosion of Sexual Knowledge

It's not pornography that is the greatest influence on sexuality today - but specifically the sexual education that is growing and spreading in the population, when knowledge that was once esoteric becomes a common asset and basic knowledge. The period of sexual education and enlightenment, together with scientific innovations that only recently began massive research of sexuality, is the arrival with delay of enlightenment into the darkest, most secret and private human domain. It is expected to have a similar effect - in raising the level of human pleasure and sexual happiness, while extinguishing the medieval sexual heritage - for better and worse (loss of charm and mystery). This is good news for marriage and coupling - and for the human species

The Name is One

Contrary to current research, which sees the Bible as a kind of testimony to power struggles whose blurring didn't succeed, in imitation of Foucauldian thought, one should extract historical insights from the Bible specifically through ars poetica thinking that gives enormous credit to the writers and their aesthetic tendencies. The question that should be asked is how the unique biblical aesthetics grew and why specifically in Judah and Israel. And then the answer is obvious: this is a necessary aesthetic result of iconoclastic monotheism, where the physical worship of God and the popular religious emotion around it were replaced inevitably with textual work around the word of God, which created great literature, into which the best popular religious emotion was invested. Because behind great literature stands enormous cultural effort - and not conspiracy

The Indians of the Future

What is common between Indians and Jews, which caused these two traditional and fractured cultures to choose democracy as default? The powers of the 19th century, led by Britain, made an enormous mistake by not conquering China and creating colonialism there - and we are paying for the results of this mistake today. In retrospect, British colonialism was the most successful of all, and therefore one should recreate an alliance built on the greatest empire ever, which succeeded in creating more stable democracies than any other empire

The Tragedy of Philosophy

There can be two main aesthetic tastes in the form of philosophical writing: philosophy that reveals its source and its way of thinking and follows the beginning of the development of ideas, and philosophy that presents ideas in their most refined, aesthetic and complete form - and evokes wonder. The second taste teaches less how to do philosophy, and it contradicts the principles of the philosophy of learning, but it teaches philosophy itself better, and evokes a sense of sublimity for philosophy and the height of its ideas - because it throws away the ladder. But there is also a third and tragic form of philosophical writing: when philosophical work does not reach completion, and evokes sorrow for the spiritual loss, but also opens a door for continuation

The Agnonic Anchor

Why did Agnon choose this name? The matter is connected to a bold Kabbalistic conception no less than Sabbateanism - in the relations of the coupling of the Shekhinah [divine presence] with God. This conception is also the source of Agnonic modernism - and the reason it was accepted outside the religious world. One-sided attachment, which has an overt component of compulsion and a covert component of desire and some built-in impossibility and hope and expectation without prospect, that is agunah [chained wife] in the language of tradition - this is what connects Agnon to the sources of modern absurdity

Philosophy of Mathematics of the Future

The philosophy of mathematics, in its aspiration for supra-temporal eternity like its object, does not take into account developments in physics as changing fundamental conceptions of mathematics. Were it not for its success in the sciences - which is most strange according to the current scientific picture (meaning this picture is probably incorrect) - the entire conception of mathematics would be different, as chess is perceived, namely as arbitrary and not as eternal truth at the foundation of the universe. Mathematics can be conceived as a type of physical experiment that reveals basic low-level physical truth that is also expressed at the high level of thought, namely a physical law that is not limited to a certain lateral order of magnitude in the universe but crosses vertically through all orders of magnitude in the universe, and is therefore accessible to us also at the level of thought, which enables doing a physical experiment in the brain at the level of elementary particles and thus penetrating the secrets of the universe

The Future of Israel

What is strategy in the eyes of the philosophy of the future? Analysis of the learning capabilities of a system, versus rivals. That is, we are not dealing with future content (a problematic concept) but with future form - not the specific goals are examined in strategy, but the methodology. So the examination does not revolve around data, or even trends and directions, but around learning algorithms that operate in the system. Demonstration of algorithmic thinking about Israel

If Morality is Dead - Is Everything Permitted?

Demonstration of the philosophy of learning applied to the field of morality. Unlike the philosophy of the future, which would examine a moral act according to future judgment toward it, the philosophy of morality claims that there is no such thing as future judgment (when? in a thousand years? a million? after all, even in the future judgment will change and reverse again and again) as an object to which one can aspire (asymptotically). On the contrary, one must understand morality as a system of learning in the present, in which we have no future pretension (to reach a limit), except aspiration to advance (in the current derivative). In fact, ontologically, the future itself will be defined as the direction of learning's progress, which emerges and is created from within learning as a byproduct, and not as an imaginary metaphysical object placed somewhere on a timeline that does not currently exist

On the Principle of Self-Repetition

Why do thinkers repeat themselves? Why is what is a literary flaw not at all a philosophical flaw? If one understands learning as evolution and not as learning that reaches a certain conclusion, then philosophy itself is a learning system, in which every philosopher is another stage in learning, or another direction for an evolutionary branch. And unlike a linear story, in evolution there is crucial importance to copying, and in learning there is enormous importance to repetitions - to internalizing the idea and learning to use it, making it into a tool, and finally into part of you. That is, ideas undergo a technological process, in which the tool becomes part of the person

The Network of Interest

The tourism site deteriorates into a collection of shooting angles, and into a ritual of reproducing canonical photographs, namely into a Facebook feed, and therefore receives a similar spiritual structure. Tourism is always an intensification of reality, and therefore one can use it as a seismograph for trends that later take over reality, and on the other hand propose alternatives in it. Thus for example, travel in the past was much more prolonged and included also an inner journey, sometimes with a religious or spiritual component that was not strongly anchored in material but in the spirit and culture of the traveler. Therefore not all journeys were "performances" of the same tourist route, when like in a concert the tourist or traveler is measured by "performance". In contrast, the traveler is a listener - and precisely because of this also a composer

Network Morality versus Atomic Morality

If Nietzsche contrasted slave morality with master morality and ridiculed through historicization and genealogy of morality the conception of good and evil, then precisely using history of moral examples as a philosophical basis can solve the problem of relativity and historicity of morality. Indeed, the conception of morality changes historically - but from philosophical justification of ethics built on moral learning. And what we learn today about humans causes us to see the group as the new moral atom - and to retreat from individualistic morality

Salon Philosopher

House philosopher of the Netanya School seeks student

The Human Genius

The philosophy of the future is actually proven in practice. Almost never do we recognize the greatness of the great in present time, and in contrast we are amazed at people of the past who did not recognize the greatness of the great in their days. That is - it is actually impossible to see and distinguish the great in real time, because they are truly not great from the perspective of the present, but only from that of the future. Therefore only the future can judge greatness. And thus also the understanding of who is foolish and who is wise crystallizes only in the future, because it is determined according to results, and the wise cannot know that he is wise and the fool cannot know that he is fool and the great cannot know that he is great. Therefore, wisdom and foolishness and greatness are not knowledge or awareness in the present, but seeing the future

What is Philosophy of Learning?

Philosophical learning, like any tree search, can be didactic and orderly, but also greedy and working on the principle of demonstration. When dealing with an unordered tree - there is an advantage to philosophical learning of the type presented in these notebooks. Like in evolution, it includes a component of random mutation, which suits searching in a space with infinite dimensions. In the end, philosophy is a form of thinking, or more precisely a form of learning, and the notebooks demonstrate a form of thinking and learning. Happy is the person who will learn it - and will not continue it, but will continue to learn

The End of the Matter, All is Heard

Prolegomena to Any Future Philosophy

Summary of trends in the Netanya School. Following the glorious philosophical tradition of those who were not understood at all in their lives - the founder philosopher establishes a new tradition of those who were not read at all. Prolegomena as summary - this is a fitting end to the work of a school that dealt with the future. In the best tradition of the compressed style of the school, whose single book contains material equivalent in value to a thousand non-fiction books, and which condenses the waste of time that is philosophical jargon (which broke negative records in the twentieth century, in a trend shared by both the analytic and continental traditions), the Netanyite compresses his entire doctrine into a short article. And the rest go and learn

The Last Seminar

Text of a different type. Summary in black dots of the seminar week given by the Netanyite philosopher in his salon about his dreams for the future of the world - a moment before he left the world for a world that is all future. In this seminar the late Netanyite left behind him an abundance of directions for future progress, when he himself stands on the threshold of cessation, and perhaps already peeks beyond the border

Last Days

Saturday Night: Theoretical Introduction to Dreams

Alternative to post-humanism | Intentions as opposed to directions on one hand - and to instructions on the other hand | Mathematical forces in the universe against physical forces | The present is the mediocrity (and defines sea level 0), the past is the deep but the future is the high | Before the gate of humanities: "No entry through this gate for those who have not learned algorithmics" | Setting the demands of philosophy from science and from technology

Sunday: Technological Dreams

Why did Europe win? | What is the acceleration function of the world? | Business model for culture | Ranking for people in the social network | Interface through gaze | Augmented reality office | Printing houses and infrastructure | Neurological truth machine | Brainet instead of Internet

Monday: Educational Dreams

Reading at age two | Learning programming language for the entire population like reading and writing | To teach and not to educate | College tax | How is consensus on canon maintained? | Computers will be our children | Holocaust of the spirit is more severe than holocaust of the body | New architecture of learning organization | Learning is within the system | Personal computerized learning assistant | Every person will become an intelligence organization | The solution to the problem of free choice

Tuesday: Sexual Dreams

The male sexual revolution | Sexual biofeedback | Sexotechnology | Sexual genetic engineering | Converting money and likes to sexual pleasure - a world that is all prostitution | Learning failures as sins | Pleasure as creator of learning and wealth as its fertilizer | Social genetic engineering | Sex between organizations | Matchmaking algorithm | Restoring balance between men and women through technology

Wednesday: Economic Dreams

Learning economy | Money as reinforcement for synapses and as changing the strength of connections in the network | Algo-communism | Learning culture against consumer culture | Economy's transition to infinitesimal sizes of money and from them to continuous flow economy | The mathematical need for the state is the basis of the social contract

Thursday: Political Dreams

The neurological state | Fighting current events through philosophy | The philosophical state | The manager is a secretary, and the teacher is above him | Intelligence state | Monopoly on the database as monopoly on violence | Turning the state into a learning algorithm - and law into code about humans | Countless small learning circles are preferable to one large circle | The meta-goal of the state - cultural golden age

Friday: Philosophical Dreams

Method of philosophy as system and not as collection of doctrines | Technology, language, intelligence, consciousness - as evolution of learning itself | The evolution of learning is the evolution of man | Learning of the highest order - as definition of philosophy | On the unreasonable effectiveness of physics and nature in mathematics | The third rule of learning | The fourth rule of learning | Application of the fourth rule to mathematics as way to solve impossibility questions | Philosophy of mathematics as learning | Philosophy of science as learning: instead of paradigms - the second rule of learning ("within the system") | The connection between learning and the Jewish concept of "covenant" | The contribution of historicization of the system to learning, as continuation of Hegel and Nietzschean genealogy | Future directions for philosophy of learning | What was before learning in philosophy? - brief history of learning | Why did we come to the world? - to learn

Saturday: Religious Dreams

Religion after the Holocaust | Man is the religion of the computer | Religion as vaccination against Fermi paradox and as motive for artificial intelligence | Messianic technology for fulfilling ancient prophecies | Haredi society - society of the future | Hasidism as the next transition of Jewish ideas to world culture | Virtual internet religion | Art as the future of religion and as its victory over secularism | Suicide letter

Essay on the Fermi Paradox

The problem of empty skies - like a kind of inversion of God's existence - evokes terror in every reasonable person, and received brilliant formulation in the "Fermi Paradox" (about which there is an excellent and sleep-disturbing entry in the world Wikipedia). On its face this is a probabilistic-scientific problem, but in its depth this is a philosophical problem of exceptional order of magnitude, which forces philosophy to return to its source as cradle of physical and biological science - and creates an exceptional perspective in its distance on man (on the border of the inhuman). If our point of view on the universe is completely unreasonable (statistically!), how do we appear from the heavens - from the point of view of the universe?

Confucius of the Future

"Jewish Confucius" - or "Proto-Netanyite" - are the nicknames of an anonymous thinker from before the beginning of the Netanya School, who was perhaps the teacher or initial inspiration of the most important philosopher in Netanya, who later disowned him - when he turned from Eastern thought to Western thought. Very little was preserved from Proto-Netanyite thought, which remained partly sealed and signed for a generation that will discover it in the future, but some of the teacher's ideas precede the student's ideas - and particularly the philosophy of learning and the future. From the fragments that remained it appears that this was a kind of mystical group that existed in ancient Netanya around a charismatic teacher - and sexually ill. The thought is arranged in two condensed files, one of the teacher and the second of the student, and it was found in the Netanyite's house after his suicide, and was apparently his favorite reading material in the bathroom, but he denied any connection to it in his life, and claimed he never read it and was not influenced by it at all

Essays

Prominent introductory chapters to the thought of the Netanya School, from which it is worthwhile to begin acquaintance with it

Essay on the History of Philosophy

Philosophy as never seen before: an especially concise essay that dismantles and reassembles all the history of Western philosophy from the point of view of the philosophy of learning. Another small masterpiece from the study hall of the Netanya School (estimated reading time: 15 minutes of glory)

Essay on Learning

Brief presentation of the philosophy of learning - as heir to the philosophy of language. Why is learning a paradigm? And why is learning not only a paradigm and not mainly a paradigm, and actually presents a radical alternative perpendicular to paradigmatic thought, and replaces it with learning thought? On the difference between a scholar and a lover of wisdom, which is like the gap between Talmud and philosophy. This paradigmatic gap indeed founded philosophy as the field of wisdom, but inclined it far from "learninghood," when only today is the synthesis between wisdom and learning made possible

Essay on the Four Postulates of Learning

Learning is the future: a very short essay that analyzes learning into its components and gives them signs - according to the four rules developed in the concluding Netanyite seminar. The essay before us parallels them to the four main branches in philosophy, which receive a learning version: philosophy of language is replaced by philosophy of learning, ethics is transformed to ethics of learning, epistemology is formulated as learning epistemology and aesthetics as learning aesthetics. This is how it's done: learning about learning

On the Learning Consultant

On the profession of the 21st century, which will combine treatment of the individual (psychologist) and treatment of the organization (consultant) and treatment of the system (manager) - because the individual and the organization will both be understood as a system. With the spread of the learning revolution, we will discover that we are all learning-consultants, half necessary and half superfluous, because the half state is the consultative state - and the learning state. Advice is direction - not instruction, and not just possibility, but an intermediate state between possibility and instruction. This unique logical state, between the possible and the necessary, dwells in the space between language and programming, that is in the space where learning takes place

Fragments: Theory of the Teacher

Collection of intentions dealing with the four principles of learning - and with learning versions of the various branches of philosophy - in the tradition of fragmentary philosophical writing

On Certainty: Philosophy of Learning Version

Toward the end - return to the foundation

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Ideology in Crisis: What is the Relevance of Conservatism to the 21st Century? (Part 1)

A conservative learning algorithm is one that reduces error at the expense of learning speed. In certain situations, this is a zero-sum trade-off, and as risk decreases - so do potential profit and loss. But what are the conditions under which conservatism actually increases the level of errors and amplifies risks? The faster the environment changes, the greater the challenge conservatism faces. What changes must be made to conservative ideology to adapt it to a global and technological reality undergoing acceleration?

By: A Can of Pickles

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In recent years, with the rise of right-wing intelligence, we are witnessing the emergence (and particularly - its aliyah [immigration to Israel]) of a new intellectual trend: conservatism. In contrast to the worn-out worldview of the left, conservatism presents an innovative, reasoned, and challenging approach - and often a witty one too. Burke, the critic of the French Revolution (and perhaps the number one conservative icon), threatens to change its historical assessment from positive to negative, some two hundred years after its occurrence. Like another conservative icon, de Tocqueville, Burke excelled at foreseeing the future, in the sense of warning against it. And like another icon, Chesterton, the style of these European gentlemen is brilliant. But does conservatism really hold the cure for the ills of the state and society at the beginning of the 21st century? Is conservatism the sober future towards which we are marching, and the new elite that will replace the Marxist-Foucauldian complex?

Alternative History of the French Revolution

Well, how shall we retrospectively evaluate the achievements of the French Revolution? The horrors of the revolution are often presented as an argument for its failure, but what is forgotten is that this is very small change from a historical perspective, which was nothing compared to the Napoleonic Wars (whose historical assessment is mixed. Napoleon is not Hitler. And his Code and its dissemination are a tremendous achievement). It is clear that the English model of the Glorious Revolution is far superior to the French one, but the truly great achievement of the French Revolution lies in its comparison to the German Revolution, or the Italian Revolution, or the Spanish Revolution, or the Portuguese, or even the Russian Revolution of the 18th century. These revolutions, which did not happen, and whose absence created a long line of fascist and totalitarian regimes and flooded Europe with blood and chaos, compared to which the French Revolution (the terrible childhood trauma of conservatism!) looks like a charming childish prank, are the correct historical yardstick by which to judge the French Revolution, not "democracy in America" or England. In relation to the continental, Catholic world, with its civil law, with a rationalist and not empiricist school, the French Revolution should still be celebrated as an achievement. The idea that optimization can be achieved through careful and measured incremental changes in any system, as conservatism suggests, is an absurd idea. Evolution requires revolutions, extinctions, and disasters in order not to get stuck in a local optimum, not to mention just random walk and degeneration. Errors are part of any learning algorithm, and paradigmatic errors are part of paradigmatic learning. The main known engine (conservatives that we are, relying on the known!) for cultural and evolutionary development is a series of catastrophes, each of which brings unprecedented progress in its wake. If not for an asteroid that almost wiped out higher life on Earth - we would still be in the age of dinosaurs.

And what about the impressive predictive ability of conservatives? Well, as they say in the stock market about the doomsayers who always foresaw the previous crisis, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Regarding every revolution or dramatic change, including revolutions whose assessment is undoubted today, such as the scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, printing, secularization, urbanization, information, etc., there were warning conservatives who foresaw and warned in the gates against possible severe consequences, with eloquent arguments, and often hit the mark (while missing the overall positive picture). Each of these, if the revolution fails, is a candidate to be considered a forward-looking conservative, including opponents of the Communist revolution. The selection of conservative icons is historical cherry-picking. Conservatism fails precisely in what it criticizes - hubris and inability to predict outcomes in complex systems - manifested in its lack of historical imagination, which could have been aided by the idea of alternative histories. For example, could the failure of the Communist revolution have been predicted in advance, and therefore it is a failure of the left? Maybe, but this begs the question: Did the Communist revolution fail?

Alternative History of the Communist Revolution

Well, can anyone still argue otherwise, in the face of tens of millions of victims? (Yes, Stalin is not a hero of World War II, but bears responsibility second only to Hitler for the number of its victims, after the pact he made with him. The Eastern Front, within whose madness the Holocaust was formed and took place, is a joint totalitarian project, which began with joint Russian-German brutality that created a territory of "Wild East", where the civilizational order was suspended - in favor of hell). But, and this is the critical question - what was the reasonable historical alternative to the Communist revolution? A glorious democratic revolution in Russia? A laughable thought. The Russian system, since the days of Ivan the Terrible, has been distinctly characterized by exceptional cruelty in relation to Europe, oppression, totalitarianism, disregard for human life, and everything that would have turned it, had it not been for the "leftist" revolution, into a brutal, murderous and oppressive superpower no less, and probably much more, than Communist Russia was. Would a right-wing fascist regime have been created there, for example, that would really have conquered the whole world with Hitler? Could a dictatorship of evil passing by inheritance, like North Korea, have been created there? Could a nuclear world war have developed under such a regime, for example at the moment when it was threatened from within and on the verge of collapse? The horror scenarios are horrifying - and plausible.

If there is anything to be said in favor of communism, both in Russia and China, it is that it departed from our world with a whimper, and not as usually happens in the collapse of empires - with a bang, of blood and fire (and in this case - nuclear). If there is a regime that presented a conservative incremental transition to the stage after it - in China and to the short years of democracy in Russia - it was the communist regime, precisely because of its leftist materialism and tendency to see economics as the basis of its worldview (including kleptocracy!). Russian right-wing nationalist totalitarianism would have behaved differently, as would personal totalitarianism, not to mention fascist (the combination of the two). Alternatively, we know that a communist revolution, if it had taken place in England, even if not successful, would have looked much better than the one in Russia, perhaps roughly like the kibbutz movement, simply because the English are different from Russians. How shall we put it? The English are a conservative people (by the way, the conservative pretension to fit the local tradition of each people - it fits one people in particular, and a particularly conservative one. There is a lack of recognition of the diversity of human consciousness here). So too a communist revolution in Israel, by the way of the kibbutzim. And at least from the Jewish perspective - if we remember the malignant antisemitism in Russia and the German Holocaust project - we can imagine a parallel Russian Holocaust project, in an alternative totalitarian history, compared to communism which "only" eliminated the Jewish cultural intelligentsia, but left the millions alive. On the other hand, if Rosa Luxemburg had succeeded, and a leftist communist revolution had taken place in Germany, instead of a right-wing revolution (a quite plausible alternative history, in the late Weimar Republic) tens of millions of victims would likely have been spared from the world, plus one Holocaust.

Conservatism as a Changing Parameter

Therefore, conservatism fails itself by presenting the one ideal (English?) to nations whose tradition does not allow it at all, and compared to the realistic historical possibilities, which were forced to violently break fossilized and oppressive structures. Who here is against ideals that are theoretically beautiful (for example, equality, for example, an evolving and adapting tradition) in the face of a reality that has not heard of the ideal? If we're talking about conservatism that opposes an abstract idea, and chooses the least bad among the options, then often revolutionism from the left was preferable to revolutionism from the right, precisely because of the ideas behind it. Conservatism led the English peoples to brilliant achievements and democracy, but where the hell did conservatism lead the Russians and Chinese and Turks in the 19th century? Into the disasters of the 20th century. Too much conservatism - collapse. Or shall we decide in retrospect that this is not conservatism, because it is not English, and not liberal-democratic? So what is its relevance to these peoples? And medieval conservatism? And German and Japanese conservatism, which led to technological-cultural development and political catastrophe? And where did cautious conservatism lead the Jews? To extermination. And if Jewish revolutionism did not exist, and the delusional messianic gamble at its base - the State of Israel would not exist either. But the Anglosphere in the last 300 years? - Oh, an excellent example, and all thanks to conservatism (or maybe Protestantism? Or maybe capitalism? Or imperialism? The industrial revolution? A certain type of scientific-engineering world? Or just excellent geographical luck?).

And since conservatism is essentially a parameter: Would history have benefited from more conservatism - or less conservatism? (It's not clever to examine only the cases where conservatism helped and did not harm). Because when a civilizational collapse occurs - this is of course anti-conservatism (very small wisdom! Because it's also anti-any-reasonable-ideology) - but already no conservatism can stop it. Therefore, the question is whether conservatism delays or creates collapse situations? Is the resistance to move and run with the speed of world change, and heaven forbid not to precede it, not a recipe for breaking points? And is preventing breaks - not a recipe for shattering? And what is conservatism's answer to the acceleration of the world - denial? Moving the parameter to less conservatism? Or perhaps the opposite attempt, to take the parameter backwards and hold the reins more tightly than before - which sounds like a recipe for disaster? If conservatism presents itself as pragmatic utilitarianism, and not, heaven forbid, as an ideology, what are the conditions for refuting it as a beneficial method? After all, the world is changing - and worse: change itself is changing. If the rate of changes in the system accelerates exponentially - when will we move from a method of optimization (according to the past!) to exploration? Conservatism is like an algorithm that denies the need for intensive and expensive mutational exploration (of policy and social forms), but secretly enjoys exploration done at great expense by competitors - roughly like the Chinese who steal original American research, and then do it cheaper and more efficiently (and no one underestimates optimization!). Where would the Anglosphere be without capitalist and scientific structures that grew in the Italian city-states during the Renaissance (amidst utterly unconservative chaos), or without democratic and civic ideas that grew in Athens (another perpetually reformist society - until collapse)? And if the predictive ability in the global system were gradually decreasing to the level of weather, until what stage would conservatives argue that it's better to wear what we wore yesterday, instead of looking at today's morning forecast?

It is precisely conservatism, which is aware of human short-sightedness and the chaotic nature of the human condition (meaning - low predictive ability), that should have internalized that in such a situation, a system that wants to improve (or even survive, for example in the Jewish case) must often take big gambles, and make comprehensive reforms, and heaven forbid - revolutions, whose end we cannot foresee. Because when predictive ability is so low - even a continuous and measured conservative strategy can and is expected to eventually lead to catastrophe, for example in a sudden phenomenon of phase transition. The state of chaos (not referring to disorder, but to the dynamics of systems with internal feedback) is truly unpredictable to such an extent that even if we initiate little and cautiously and moderately and use proven strategies - this very method can cause our collapse, in a world changing much faster than us. As long as the maniac who will slow down time and technology is not born - we must find ways to change faster and faster, while reducing risks as much as possible, of course. There is no point in calling this strategy conservatism - but rather innovation.

Continued in Part 2: On Innovative Ideology - as a Substitute for Conservative Ideology

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