I honestly think that I have a chance to make a big difference in the world. And I feel compelled to spend more time doing that, especially since there are so many good pro-Israel advocates out there nowadays.
I just came up with what looks like a good workflow to write my book on "Derechology," a meta-ethical framework that literally solves or dissolves every major problem in moral philosophy. It proves that many of the basic assumptions of philosophy from Aristotle to today have been flawed, and the Jewish ethical philosophy systems has been thriving and solving problems far more flexibly and effectively than all the others (at least in the Western world.)
And the major case study that proves that Derechology is a superior is in how the other systems either tolerate or promote antisemitism.
I have a good handle on the scope of Derechology (I hope, it keeps expanding.) I have a great model architecture of a specific ethical system, a secularized version of Jewish ethics, that I am now calling secular covenantalism (SC.) (My AskHillel chatbot is only the beginning.) I have shown how Derechology can be applied to -and vastly improve! - disparate systems like journalistic ethics, educational philosophy, jurisprudence and AI ethics. Not to mention political science, the study of history, philosophy of the mind - pretty much every human endeavor in existence. I don't think I have even scratched the surface.
It's really that big.
And it is all because Jewish moral philosophy is so rich and well integrated - and had been all but ignored in the academy. All I did was extract it from the rest of Judaism and formalize it.
The insights may be able to be used within Judaism itself - I can use derechological concepts to identify consistent "derech" threads in the Torah and other Jewish writings, in an algorithmic way, that AI can automate. On Friday, I had my AI contrast how two major 20th century poskim issued their rulings. This is mind blowing stuff.
As you can tell from the podcast I did a couple of weeks ago, I am very excited - and the framework is now much stronger than it was even then.
The research I'm doing is also spinning off in other directions. I have been working on an AI tool to identify bias in text that can be used by media companies, media watchdogs and journalism classes. I have been playing with another AI sandbox that ranks the seeming reliability of its own sources to reduce hallucinations and help ensure AI does not use sources that are problematic in its answers.
So if I don't post as much as I normally do, forgive me.
I'm trying to save the world in my spare time.
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