Bruce Feiler @BruceFeiler

📘Order A TIME TO GATHER: How Ritual Created the World—and How It Can Save Us (May) 📚 LIFE IS IN THE TRANSITIONS, SECRETS OF HAPPY FAMILIES, COUNCIL OF DADS linktr.ee/brucefeiler Joined August 2009

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Bruce Feiler @BruceFeiler

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@NUCLRGOLF Play only nine holes.

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2 weeks ago

Save the date! Join us on October 15th at 1 p.m. ET on Zoom for a Community One Read event with @BruceFeiler in conversation with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl. We can't wait to see you for this fantastic conversation! Reserve your free spot here. bit.ly/4pJbEjq

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@robertwrighter Lies! Your book made me wiser AND older!

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@kausmickey Join us for a conversation at 92Y this Monday! In-person or livestreamed! 92ny.org/event/robert-w…

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Bruce Feiler @BruceFeiler

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@simongerman600 The Fall of the Blue Wall

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If you're in NY, I hope you'll come see me and @BruceFeiler discuss AI and the human future at the 92nd St. Y. And if you can't be there, there's a livestream option.

Simon & Schuster @SimonBooks

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.@robertwrighter will discuss THE GOD TEST at 92NY on July 27! Register to attend in-person or virtually here: bit.ly/3RvqBJ3

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@ChrisWillman @Variety cluster-fifa 💪

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@jpodhoretz Proud to say I read and still own this book!

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Jennifer Kwan MD PhD @jennkwanMDPhD

2 months ago

Inspired by convos w/@TEDTalks leaders, @dwlichtenstein, 7x @nytimes bestselling author, @BruceFeiler: Tech Δs, human needs don't. As AI transforms how we learn, connect, create, it may reinvent 1 of humanity's oldest tools: shared rituals that build community, meaning, belonging

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Jalen Brunson of the @nyknicks is the second player in NBA history to score 45+ points on the road in a title-clinching victory. The other was Michael Jordan at Utah in 1998.

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Bruce Feiler @BruceFeiler

2 months ago

@alexpotato @EnergyCredit1 Thank you! I recently reran the piece in whole on my Substack so it's easier to access on today's internet. brucefeiler.substack.com/p/how-to-bribe…

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2 months ago

My favorite thing I ever wrote.

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3 months ago

May 23 - #WorldTurtleDay "Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause," Bruce Feiler.

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Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria

3 months ago

I spoke with author @BruceFeiler about his new book, “A Time to Gather,” in which he argues that the cure to the loneliness epidemic might be found in one of humanity’s most ancient practices — ritual.

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3 months ago

@FareedZakaria Thank you, @FareedZakaria, for this thoughtful and meaningful conversation about loneliness, rituals, and A TIME TO GATHER.

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3 months ago

Here's a link to my post: open.substack.com/pub/brucefeile…

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3 months ago

Pope Leo XIV issued a papacy-defining encyclical letter on Monday warning that artificial intelligence “threatens to normalize an anti-human vision” and calling on humanity to counter the excesses of Big Tech with return to everyday rituals like shared meals, community gatherings, and time spent with the lonely. In his highly anticipated open letter to “all people of good will,” which runs 42,000 words in his native language of English, the pope instantly becomes the public face of the growing global movement to safeguard humanity from AI’s most destructive forces. While technology is not inherently “antagonistic to humanity,” the pope writes, “the pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs.” The race for “self-affirmation” cannot trammel “human dignity.” In an emergency post on my Subst*ck, The Nonlinear Life, I discuss why this encyclical is a defining moment for civilization, the parallels to a similar document published by Leo XIII 135 years ago, and the similar themes I discuss in my new book, A TIME TO GATHER. To read my full newsletter, click on the link in the comments or head over to The Nonlinear Life.

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TFTC @TFTC21

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Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

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Nonzero Podcasts @NonzeroPods

3 months ago

Ritual is the original human algorithm. @BruceFeiler

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3 months ago

Can Rituals Save Us? | @robertwrighter and @BruceFeiler, author of Walking the Bible and the Council of Dads, gather to discuss the role of ritual in humanity's past, present and future—the subject of Bruce’s new book, A Time to Gather: How Ritual Created the World—and How It Can Save Us. youtu.be/wwKpWohaxk8?si…