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Greg M. Epstein

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Humanist Chaplain @Harvard / @MIT . NYTbestseller @GoodWithoutGod . 📝 @TechCrunch @techreview @CNN @GlobeIdeas . 📘 10/29—TECH AGNOSTIC @MITPress via @penguinrandom

Neither AI Heaven nor AI Hell

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Greg M. Epstein

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You all have been dragging Nude Africa Nazi guy so amazingly well, all I can offer is that I now feel like his 2021 remarks about me are now, in retrospect, honestly a highlight of my entire career

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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson attacks @gregmepstein , the president of Harvard's chaplain organization, for being an atheist: "He has no wisdom. His wisdom won't begin until he falls down on his knees, repents for his sins, and asks Jesus Christ to come into his heart."

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Greg M. Epstein

5 months

"This generation of youth have spent their entire lives in fear of having guns pointed at them in schools; what a disgrace for America that is now their own schools that are pointing the guns at them." --Josh Paul, former Director, US Department of State (resigned in protest)

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Give Stacy Abrams everything she needs - and nothing she says she doesn't need - to lead the two runoff campaigns in Georgia. Then give her the Cabinet position of her choice.

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@hakeemangulu Let me or others be your advocate w/ Harvard administrators or faculty who need to hear: this student is NOT going anywhere because they CAN'T, so you MUST provide safe & comfortable living space. AND extensions etc. MUST be provided to deal with this stress. No ifs ands or buts

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@hakeemangulu Hi @hakeemangulu , this is what chaplains and other advocates are for. If it is virtually impossible to go home, you/others in your position will likely need to ask to stay. If anyone at Harvard gives you any crap about that whatsoever, that is when you call in someone like me. 1/

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Totally support David rejecting Ashley's request to talk. You don't need to stay friends to show you're a good person #MarriedAtFirstSight

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@nytimes I happen to be sitting in the Harvard Law Library reading room right now and I could swear I just heard the entire physical infrastructure of the building groan in disgust.

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Goodell, meet GOAT. #SuperBowl

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@IBJIYONGI @hakeemangulu Yes indeed! Thanks to you I am equipped with even more details about how to resolve these issues. And maybe I'll also publish some more detailed thoughts later for how students elsewhere might approach these really difficult situations. Always an honor to hear from you Chanda!

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We are husbands, sons, boyfriends, brothers, friends. Strong women fill our lives with love. Feminism is fighting for our love. #YesAllWomen

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IDK but maybe if you spend a millennium or two centering an entire globe-conquering, militaristic and colonial culture on the idea that some people are inherently better than others, bad things might happen.

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@SashaSagan @RandPaul She would never promote herself so since this tweet is destined to go viral: buy my friend @SashaSagan 's book, For Small Creatures Such As We. It's beautiful and it does her father and her entire family legacy very proud

Sasha Sagan Dives into Science, Space and Spirituality in New Book

"People are born and people die. We've all got to get through it one way or another."

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3 years

I'm obliged and honored to share personal news: I've been elected president of my @HarvardChaplain colleagues, and the brilliant @emmabgo wrote about it for the @nytimes . Will add a 🧵here, later today. "The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist."

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The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist. (Published 2021)

The elevation of Greg Epstein, author of “Good Without God,” reflects a broader trend of young people who increasingly identify as spiritual but religiously nonaffiliated.

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. @carrieffisher =2016 @HarvardHumanist lifetime achvmt awardee! Tix to hear her @Harvard 4/18

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Found this 2019 clip from @Kasparov63 while going through old papers. I'm not big on prophesy, but so far he is scarily on point. Still, I love this idea: we issue dire predictions in the name of optimism, as we work to help prove ourselves wrong.

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Better to be what Sam Harris calls 'struggling' than his definition of success. @Americnhumanist 's brave decision marks the end of an era. Humanists/atheists deserve more inclusive, antiracist, less flat-out intolerant leadership than the loudest voices of the last generation.

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We @HarvardHumanist are thrilled and honored to announce our 2021 Humanist of the Year: Dr. @uche_blackstock '99 MD '05, a bold and brilliant advocate for racial justice in health care, and @MSNBC medical contributor. Join us for a Nov. 17 event on Zoom:

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So far none of the trending "Did Biden mock a boy stuttering" tweets reference or seem aware of @JohnGHendy 's beautiful and important piece about Biden's lifelong stutter. Criticize his policies but not that.

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Here's @Lawrence , @MSNBC last night, on why the US can't enforce a no fly zone over Ukraine without unacceptable risk of essentially destroying the whole world. I want my country to do more, but I find O'Donnell's argument sadly compelling. You?

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So basically atheists & agnostics should watch Arnold Schwarzenegger on Celebrity Apprentice as a National Prayer Breakfast protest? I'm in.

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9 years

Go back, watch first few episodes of Sam & Neil & compare to today. Whoa. #MarriedAtFirstSight gives people a chance to grow in intense ways

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5 years

So unacceptable for Richard Dawkins to tweet about eugenics without clearly condemning it. Dawkins is *supposedly* one of our exemplars of humanism & science outreach. Yet today he's given every manner of passive and active bigot an opening to "consider" persecution on steroids.

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This eugenics crap is so dangerous. In the US it lead to forced sterilizations of women in the South — sometimes against their wills, often without their knowledge — that became so common that they came to be referred to as “Mississippi appendectomies.”

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@SethAbramovitch Just dropping by to say, don't dunk on this absolute bullshit because you like brunch. That's besides the point. Dunk on it because it's deplorable to publicly police masculinity and fret about what will "emasculate" men, whether or not it's something as trivial as a MEAL.

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@MollyJongFast @DavidLat Fact about @DavidLat : he was (if I'm not mistaken) the national champion in extemporaneous speaking in high school. In '92 I was a freshman on a public school team elsewhere in Manhattan when he was a senior at Regis. And even then he was considered absolute fucking royalty.

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@RichardDawkins I've had low expectations for you, for quite some time. As I believe I've made clear. Even so this is disappointing. You've worked hard to be the spokesperson for causes I hold dear; if you can't perceive an accompanying obligation to be more decent than this—step back. Way back.

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. @HarvardHumanist 2016 lifetime achievement awardee: @carrieffisher ! Joining @stephenfry +. @sarahjanechando 's idea!

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Marriage can be so beautiful-it can also hurt so deeply. Heart goes out to all struggling to love, feeling pain instead #MarriedAtFirstSight

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Love Neil's response to Sam's revelation: admit when something hurts AND believe it can be okay. That's emotional IQ. #MarriedAtFirstSight

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4 years

Also give her the correct spelling of her first name, Stacey, by this guy

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[Donald Trump] 'Admitting a mistake...would have been showing weakness, which in my family would have been punishable by death, metaphorically—or otherwise.' -Mary Trump to Maddow tonight, seeming to suggest toxic masculinity literally killed her own father and could kill us all.

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@hakeemangulu Late here and so happy to see the positive responses. As a Harvard chaplain who studies the culture in tech and computing spaces, I'd also be honored to be on your support team in any way. ❤️ to talk about imposter syndrome & how/why it is part of systemic oppression.

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Had daily access to equivalent of literal army of philanthropy experts helping him "do the most good." Decided to chill creepily w/serial child rapist, in the name of "charity." SO tired of billionaire humanism. It's not good for democracy or humanity.

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I'm an atheist who has dedicated decades to studying religion. I've also been fascinated all my life by bullshit pseudo-spirituality. Truly not sure I've ever heard more egregious examples of bullshit religious pseudo-spirituality than these AI bros just talking shop about AI.

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We NEED to guide AI into consciousness ASAP so it can take us along with it. More knowledge = better decisions

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@axlrose When you write things like this, I feel proud to have given my son your name. Thanks and wishing you peace tonight.

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. @oneunderscore__ on @MSNBC , was asked, if people are going to @Twitter today for election info, who CAN they trust? His reply: "Don't."

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@MollyJongFast @jack General rule: if they tell you they want to "extend the light of consciousness," treat them with extreme skepticism. But are they lying to you, or just to themselves? Tech becomes more of a religion daily. Whatever your beliefs on traditional divinity, be agnostic about this one.

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2 years

Um, did a fighter jet just do a flyover in Somerville, MA? Or Boston? Or if not, anyone know what that sound was?

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4 years

YouTube just fed me what I think was a new Epoch Times ad that was the slickest piece of disinformation I've literally ever seen. WTF: has no one @Google / @YouTube read the reporting on ET by @oneunderscore__ and @BrandyZadrozny at NBC? What is happening??

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CE-le-brate good times come on! People flipping out here @HarvardHumanist @HumanistHub Go Jamie! Courage. Growth. #MarriedAtFirstSight

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Wow. I'd heard that Sam's reaction was quite dramatic, but watching her it seems quite a normal, ok response to divorce #MarriedAtFirstSight

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3 years

Sending love to my Buddhist friends and colleagues mourning Thich Nhat Hanh. He inspired so many good people to dedicate themelves to working for a more just and compassionate world.

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My wife says Tres wins the triple crown: flowers, medicine AND sushi?! Now there's a guy #MarriedAtFirstSight

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5 years

Thankful to introduce my new @TechCrunch lead story, "Will the Future of Work Be Ethical?" one of the longest features TC has ever published. 6 mos to write this, but more like years of changing my own mind/heart/career to get to the place where I could.

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Will the future of work be ethical? | TechCrunch

Will tomorrow’s leaders, despite good and ethical intentions, ultimately use their high-tech tools to exploit others ever more efficiently, or to find a better path forward?

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5 years

I had zero connection to him but I know Lt. Sandeep Dhaliwal was a hero. Because even I, who had every opportunity to learn about prejudice, persecution, and open-mindedness, was bigoted against the turban in elementary school. How much prejudice did he bravely face? A hero.

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Simran Jeet Singh

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Horrific news. Lt. Sandeep Dhaliwal, the first ever Sikh officer to wear a turban in Texas was shot and killed in the line of duty today. A good man devoted to serving others. Please offer your love and prayers for his family.

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Fairy Tales are just fiction-no marriage w/o effort & growth from 2 people. If you just want magic, better find Aladdin #MarriedAtFirstSight

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4 years

. @AriMelber asking @jelani9 which aspect of tonight's Mount Rushmore Trump Dumpster Fire-works he wants to discuss, and Cobb's sighing response, "Does it even matter anymore, Ari?" is my new Ringtone #4thofJuly #Happy4thofJuly

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I read Ta-Nehisi Coates's Reparations essay on a Greek island beach on my honeymoon. When we returned I was on fire to say something, do something, BE something to address the injustices that built America—and established my privilege. Still am. No wonder they want to ban him.

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The College Board has announced substantial changes to the AP curriculum for African American studies—including the removal of the work of writers such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, who made the case for reparations in The Atlantic. Read the article here:

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Just re-read @safiyanoble 's instant classic book, Algorithms of Oppression, a 2018 analysis of racism, sexism, and civil/human rights abuse in online search algorithms over the first several years of the past decade. So much unethical, irresponsible work at Google & beyond...

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People are really mad about these encampments, and with good reason. I mean, you just can't occupy people's territory like that, for an extended period of time, without some serious consequences 😑

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@kateconger Wow. I published a long, in-depth @TechCrunch interview with @marencosta last summer. I found her to be brilliant, passionate, and incredibly dedicated to ethics -- and to Amazon. I'm simultaneously shocked and not at all surprised she was finally fired.

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Climate change, AI and ethical leadership in 'big tech', with Amazon principal UX design lead Maren...

“I just want to be proud of the company that I work for,” Maren Costa told me recently. Costa is a Principal UX Design Lead at Amazon, for which she has

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"Musk's fans need him to promise the impossible, and Musk needs them to deliver adulation even if he doesn't actually deliver...he needs them to tend, nurture, and grow...the most important thing about Tesla. The narrative." - @Tweetermeyer on @ElonMuskPodcast

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First long road trip as a family of four and we found exactly one thing we all liked listening to: @AvrilLavigne 's new album, Love Sux. I may have memorized most of the lyrics already

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There's no perfect but there can be wonderful. AND, letting go of perfection makes wonderful more likely by far. #MarriedAtFirstSight

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Marriages end for a million reasons. If not there'd be no #MarriedAtFirstSight . When good people fail at love we ALL feel knocked over by it

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Hard to watch the walkout. Fights, misunderstandings happen. But apologies almost always work better than accusations. #MarriedAtFirstSight

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Meanwhile: people evolve. Check out ch-ch-changes in Neil & Sam's relationship. That's what we're trying to explore in #MarriedAtFirstSight

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@xeni @umairh As a father, learning to feel & give unconditional love was transformative. Knowing my son is worthy of security, dignity, joy just for *existing* helps me forgive my own life of failed attempts to prove myself to my dad. That suffering goes back countless generations & stops now

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Just came across this seemingly dark, depressing but actually when you take it in beautiful thread. I haven't talked about this much but when I was 21, 22 I had a couple years where I almost lost all hope. What pulled me up: I discovered a humanist book that said... 1/

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4 years

Wedding anniversary but I get no joy from posting on Zuckerberg-owned media these days so you Twitter people will just have to deal with these

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@SethAbramovitch I mean it's probably a joke but in such poor taste. I don't know you but think about why emasculation was on your mind in the first place, and why the rest of us would prefer it not be.

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Swallow your doubt, turn it inside out

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Get out of bed and into the shower. Get dressed and hurl yourself out the door. Walk. You don’t need to present as normal to anyone. You don’t need to have the right face on. You don’t have to not sob, even. Just walk.

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Not only have we heard zero evidence of fraud: the more I hear about the bipartisan, cooperative process that is ballot counting, the more it seems like one of the most functional and decent things about America today.

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Growing up, my nonreligious Jewish family went to church on Christmas Eve. We loved the collective effervescence—so many people seeking peace and joy together. As a devout Jewish humanist & atheist today, I wish you could sing together tonight, and wish I could join. Next year.

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Not tweeting #MarriedAtFirstSight tonight/not doing Season 4 but it's been an honor & privilege. Thank you all f/the adventure. #rootforlove

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Welp, @jentaub kindly/randomly boosted me on Mastodon despite my novice status there. Suddenly bunches of random, lovely people are following me, and I can see them interacting w/ one another. Fascinating to watch new community take shape in real time. No wonder Elon is worried.

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9 years

Problems in #MarriedAtFirstSight marriages? Oh yes. Worth breaking up over? Maybe. But most lasting couples go through really hard issues.

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"Due to travel restrictions this year, the United States had to organize coups at home." - @sorgunwall seeing things a little too clearly for comfort, sadly

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THIS by @paulwaldman1 : "the problem is not practical but spiritual..They expect to not only hoard most of the country’s wealth, but to have us praise their brilliance, laud their industriousness, proclaim the splendor of their generous spirits and insist they are the best of us."

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My first ever natl. news story, @TechCrunch , features Annette Rivero: a super hard-working Uber/Lyft driver helping lead a mass protest movement of drivers prepared to "disrupt" across CA next week, fighting for better working conditions.

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Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers to launch a protest caravan across California

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“One thing tech fundamentally has in common w/many religions, at least in the US, is that it is a white man's version of Utopia. Tech has this cult-like adherence to a white man's vision of a Utopia that fundamentally disempowers [others]." - @IjeomaOluo

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Researching EVs, because I can't bring myself to buy a gas-only car in 2022. But apparently the current business model is cars like iPhones: shiny, costly, disposable after a few years. Show me how non-rich families do this. And how it goes well for the earth, in the long term.

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I'm not big on leaps of faith-I prefer trust falls. There has to be some *evidence* love can work; but also courage. #MarriedAtFirstSight

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For fun I'm starting a 🧵 of the most grandiose, religious-sounding tech quotes I can find. Send suggestions! #1 : "AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on. It is more profound than, I dunno, electricity or fire.” -Sundar Pichai, 2018 S. F. Town Hall event

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This kid is around the age of my mom when she had to quickly flee Cuba alone. It took two years to reunite with her parents. If our experience is any guide, he'll experience the anxiety and trauma for decades to come. But he also has a beautiful future ahead - loving and loved.

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What your 11-years old kids do? This 11y.o. boy travelled alone more than thousand kilometers from Zaporizhzhya to Slovakia. His parents couldn’t flee so he left alone, with only a bag-pack and contact phone number on his hand

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Proud to stand with humanists, atheists, & the nonreligious supporting this historic interfaith campaign. @HarvardHumanist is streaming @UniteThePoor #June2020 in solidarity with @RevDrBarber @liztheo & all seeking ethical revival. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

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We debated f/hours whether to work w/Jamie despite the Bachelor. Huge call f/us-so glad we trusted her intent to GROW #MarriedAtFirstSight

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"There is no greater threat to humanity than our current definitions of masculinity," -- 1st sentence of Liz @feministabulous Plank's 2019 book For the Love of Men. Listen to Liz, y'all, because she predicted every bit of Trump's bullshit today in that one little line.

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Impressed w/Ryan D's growth? He said "mindful" last week & now-I taught him #mindfulness meditation-it can really help #MarriedAtFirstSight

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Every "philanthropist" giving millions to "AI safety" so our longtermfuture selves can chill in the Metaverse with friendly AI Gods should have to explain their priorities to parents struggling to find baby formula. No leaving the room until everyone agrees what to do next.

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As a friend just said: difference between #MarriedAtFirstSight & other reality shows is, you're rooting for love. A couple. Not individuals

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Was devastated to see incident with the $100. Crushing to see people who have potential f/love focused on anger, shame #MarriedAtFirstSight

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To see Doug and Jamie happy, at least for a moment, after so much tension about their relationship: I must say I cried. #MarriedAtFirstSight

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Love that line from @DrPepperSchwrtz : if you're not changing your life for this marriage, it's not a marriage. #MarriedAtFirstSight

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@xeni Late to this wonderful thread so just 2 words: Conditional Love. Much of what @umairh accurately summed up as patriarchy is based on teaching boys/men we're worthy of love based on what we DO. This sets off a lifelong quest to prove ourselves. The rest is, literally, history.

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@RevJacquiLewis You might not think an atheist and a @humanisticjews rabbi—living in MA—would take this personally. But my family is devastated. Of all the churches in the world outside Harvard Square where I work, we've visited yours most often this past decade. It's been a home away from home.

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#MarriedAtFirstSight big takeaway: people CAN grow & evolve. We all struggle in love but can get better, wiser. This life has much to offer

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If fear prevented a good marriage, there would be approximately zero married people. Maybe even fewer than that. #MarriedAtFirstSight

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6 months

I’ve been working on Tech Agnostic for 5+ years—I’m so happy to finally reveal the cover. Mark your calendars. It goes on sale 10/29/24! You can pre-order your copy now. Stay tuned for updates, events, and more news. #TechAgnostic @mitpress @penguinrandom

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Greg M. Epstein

4 years

Jamie Raskin is a national treasure. National. Treasure.

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Greg M. Epstein

5 years

I don't always talk about being Jewish but it's important to me albeit in my own @humanisticjews way; and, wow @NeverAgainActn captured what being Jewish means to me better than almost anything ever has. ❤ Congratulations & thanks. #NeverAgainIsNow

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As a big atheist/humanist I usually avoid the "Happy Easter to all who are celebrating" thing. It can feel trite, fake - but this year is different. I honestly feel *invested* in your ability to have a decent holiday! May a story of rebirth carry the hope so many need right now.

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Greg M. Epstein

2 years

@ronmknox @stacyfmitchell And another thing: iRobot was founded for military purposes, was it not? Then they spun off the weapon-bots to the U.S. govt and vowed to only use their tech, going forward, for innocuous purposes like cleaning? Is there any reason to feel confident Amazon would do the same?

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Greg M. Epstein

2 years

If on one pole you have people who, say, won't act to protect children from murder weapons, or who will force women to birth babies on pain of prison, then what we need is MORE polarization, not less. We need to *distance ourselves* from dangerous ideas, with pride and resolve.

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Greg M. Epstein

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Exhausted, sad-& still hopeful people can learn, grow, love. THANK YOU all who put heart into making, watching #MarriedAtFirstSight season 2

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Greg M. Epstein

4 years

@uche_blackstock @Cleanly Hi @uche_blackstock , @cleanly is considered a tech startup so I can come out of my Coronavirus hiatus to write this up @TechCrunch if that helps.

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Greg M. Epstein

4 years

@pronounced_ing Sturmunddrangscrolling

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Greg M. Epstein

10 years

Every time I watch that I think Jason's going to give Cortney a concussion, we're all getting sued, & experiment over. #MarriedAtFirstSight

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Greg M. Epstein

5 years

Immigration might not seem a likely topic in a tech pub like @TechCrunch , not even for a tech ethics writer like me. But what's going on with ICE is personal for me-as I tried to vulnerably share here. & Turns out it's also directly about tech. Thread:

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TechCrunch

5 years

Unraveling immigration politics and Silicon Valley ethics with Jaclyn Friedman by @gregmepstein

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Greg M. Epstein

8 years

So happy @jamienotis / @DougHehner are expecting a baby! They've worked so hard at marriage & have wonderful qualities to bring to parenting.♥

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Greg M. Epstein

2 years

@elonmusk Self-sabotage is something you can explore and treat in therapy.

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