Laibl's Blog • August 2023
Illusion & Reality
I always toyed with the idea of giving a lecture on how the movie, ‘Matrix’, is unknowingly based on teachings of Kabbala and Chassidus. Maybe I still will. There is…
Laibl's Blog • August 2023
The Old & The New
Modern person designates anything older than 12 months as waste to be disposed of. Living, as we are, in a world of change that advances in geometric progression, there is…
Laibl's Blog • August 2023
Positivity
Would you take a precious gift received from your father or mother and, in a pique of anger, thrust it onto the ground, breaking it? Yet it seems that is…
Laibl's Blog • July 2023
Resilience
Why is it that some people have the amazing capacity to ride the wave of pressure and stress and produce their best, while others, fold and buckle under the weight…
Laibl's Blog • July 2023
My Land of Israel
Being in Israel allows me to compare the knee-jerk world-newspaper editorials and internet headlines, most clearly a total distortion if not fabrication, with the reality of life in the Land…
Laibl's Blog • July 2023
Courage of Initiative
Putin faced a rebellion. It wasn’t overly serious. But symbolically important. Did he disarm it? To be determined. Moses also faces a rebellion in this week’s Parsha. A leader of…
Laibl's Blog • June 2023
Will Robots Enslve Humanity?
Recently a google AI engineer claimed his LLM (an AI Large Language Machine) had feelings and desires. And he sought to have his machine protected as an employee with legal…
Laibl's Blog • June 2023
Puppets & Puppeteers
Do you think that most Russians want a war with Ukraine? Do you think that most Arabs want to fight Israel? Do you think that most Australians fear war with…
Laibl's Blog • June 2023
Whiskey & Herring
This may sound ‘fishky’ to you, but the combination of whiskey and herring is an age-old Jewish tradition from way back in the ‘old country’. In bitterly cold winter climates,…
Laibl's Blog • June 2023
AI is Not Intelligent
We are reading doomsday articles on how ‘artificial intelligence’ may destroy humanity, that AGI (Artificial General intelligence) – meaning superior ’emergent’ robotic mindpower – will far outpace human capacities, leading…
Laibl's Blog • June 2023
Design in Nature
The more science investigates the nature of the universe, both macro and micro, the more it discovers design, structure, and pattern. This is quite amazing since we would intuitively expect…
Laibl's Blog • May 2023
Neighbourhood Watch
How did you choose your home? Was it the price? Was it the large yard? Was it the view? In the ‘old country’ we chose our home based on who…
Laibl's Blog • July 2021
Vaccinate or be struck by lightning
Be sensible. Be reasonable. Be level-headed. No-one will argue with these well worn-words of advice. But what do they mean? If you believe that governments are not being transparent about…
Laibl's Blog • June 2021
From Aquarius to Aquarellist
I recall the ‘age of Aquarius’ well. You may recall a song by that title from a group called The Fifth Dimension [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlrQ-…]. I was 22 years of age back…