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2013-09-12T15:48:30-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Christian Round Entries Index

Last updated on: September 12, 2013 at 3:48 pm By Leah Libresco

In a conventional Turing Test, computer programmers try to write a computer program that can pass for human. In the Ideological Turing Test, atheists and Christians test how well they understand each other by trying to talk like each other. All the entries in the Christian round are collected below, so, in these answers, Christian contestants answer honestly, and atheists impersonate Christians as best they can. You can click on each link to read the entry to decide whether you... Read more

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Christian Turing answers 2013

2013-09-11T13:19:17-04:00

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Your Moment of Verklempt

Last updated on: September 11, 2013 at 1:19 pm By Leah Libresco

It seemed particularly appropriate to post today: Also, housekeeping note, summer voting for the Turing Test was a bit low, so I’ll be putting up the index posts for both rounds today, linking them around a bit, and then posting the results next week or the week after once I’ve doing one more whip for votes Read more

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2013-09-10T15:01:07-04:00

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The Fear of God in Me

Last updated on: September 10, 2013 at 3:01 pm By Leah Libresco

Yesterday, when I was attending Daily Mass, I was one of only four people present. I sat up in front, and, after the priest had administered the Eucharist to himself, he motioned me up to assist as an extraordinary minister of holy communion, to distribute the Blood to the remaining parishioners after they received the Body from him. I was quite nervous walking up and receiving the chalice, and hoped that terror-as-reverence was about the right disposition, as long as... Read more

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2013-09-09T15:10:58-04:00

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Servant of Two Masters

Last updated on: September 9, 2013 at 3:10 pm By Leah Libresco

If I had a car, I suppose I could have a bumpersticker that read “My other Sunday obligation is the New York Times.” And part of the weekly ritual tends to be glaring at the Ethicist column, which frequently gives questionably ethical advice. A few weeks ago, a reader wrote in to say that she sorts mail for a group of homeless or at-risk American Indian people and, when she found that one new mother had been sent a free formula... Read more

Morality in Practice

2013-09-08T16:37:35-04:00

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If the Phantom Tollbooth were a musical for grad students…

Last updated on: September 8, 2013 at 4:37 pm By Leah Libresco

My friend Scott has published the full story from the second installment of his Dungeons and Discourse game Fermat’s Last Stand. Here’s the prologue: Centuries ago, brilliant mathematician Pierre de Fermat came up with a proof so elegant that the God of Truth himself, mighty Aleithos, grew jealous. Taking inspiration from Fermat’s failure to fit his discovery in the margin of his notebooks, Aleithos afflicted the genius with the curse of macrographia: handwriting so large that his equations could never... Read more

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2013-09-05T17:48:44-04:00

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When Coming of Age Feels Like Farewell…

Last updated on: September 5, 2013 at 5:48 pm By Leah Libresco

Since I grew up on Long Island, there were Bar and Bat Mitzvahs pretty much every weekend in seventh grade. (No, although I’m descended from Jews on the correct side, I did not have one). So I was interested in an article in The New York Times about the way the Union for Reform Judaism is experimenting with the ritual and the study that leads up to it. A cursory primer for the goyim: Bar/Bat Mitzvahs mark the transition to adulthood... Read more

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2013-09-04T14:05:57-04:00

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Video Game as Preparation for Death

Last updated on: September 4, 2013 at 2:05 pm By Leah Libresco

I couldn’t help but be charmed by Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher, an in-browser game where you argue philosophy with a hit parade of great thinkers. (That’s Thomas Hobbes being rebutted by the protagonist above). You, Socrates Jones, are trapped in a kind of limbo for philosophers, and you can only escape if you give the Arbiter an answer to the question of Morality. There’s plenty of room to be frustrated with nuances of the philosophies being left out, or with philosophers... Read more

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2013-09-02T15:25:14-04:00

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Happy Labor Day!

Last updated on: September 2, 2013 at 3:25 pm By Leah Libresco

Sorry for my absence, I’ve been traveling for work and family, being dramatically killed as my arc as a big bad NPC came to an end, and then being ill. Regular posts resume tomorrow, with Turing Test results coming soon, once I do one more email blast to up the N. In the meantime, I don’t have the day off, but whether you do or not, I hope you enjoy songs from my favorite Union musical: Read more

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2013-08-27T13:32:18-04:00

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“I Must Not Tell Lies”

Last updated on: August 27, 2013 at 1:32 pm By Leah Libresco

Over at Strange Notions, I joined Deacon Jim Russell (a Catholic radio speaker)and James Croft (who blogs in the Patheos Atheist channel) for a symposium on the ethics of lying. Deacon Jim kicked off the conversation with “Lying and Truth-Telling: A Question for Catholics and Atheists.” He explained that Catholics disagreed about whether a lie is only sinful if the target has a right to the truth. Then, in James Croft’s “The Ethics of Lying: One Humanist’s View,” he took a pragmatic approach... Read more

Morality in Practice

2013-08-25T12:35:27-04:00

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Atonement?

Last updated on: August 25, 2013 at 12:35 pm By Leah Libresco

Eve Tushnet visited “Atonement: Stories About Confession, Redemption and Making Amends” (a night of true stories told/performed in preparation for the High Holy Days) and she found that the stories touched on regret and error, but rarely on atonement and penance. I wonder if atonement is especially hard to talk about–harder than sin, rationalization, or realization of wrongdoing. I’m doing this series on portrayals of penitence and it’s easier to find examples of artworks which should include penitence but don’t than to find artworks which... Read more

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