The following is a conversation with Ryan Schiller, creator of Librex, an anonymous discussion feed for college communities starting at first with Yale, then the Ivy Leagues, and now adding Stanford and MIT. Their mission is to give students a place to explore ideas and issues in a positive way, but with much more personal and intellectual freedom than has defined college campuses in recent history. I think this is a very difficult but worthy project. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| As a side note, let me say that Ryan is a young entrepreneur and genuine human being who quickly won me over. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| I also have to say that there's passion in Ryan's eyes for really wanting to make a difference in the world. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Let's start with the basics. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Yeah, what's that called when you're actually still there? My university? Yeah, I guess we'll just call it home. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| We opened to the rest of the Ivy League, and now we have, and the Ivy League, for those who don't know, is Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, and Penn. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| I can't say that on camera. We'll edit it in post. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Penn, Harvard. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| It's deep fake, but for positive applications. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Yeah. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| That gets part of the individual. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Tremendous amount of intellectual autonomy, don't you think? Think about the societal consequences. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| You could say it's sadly, or I don't think it's sad, is decentralization of truth, where like truth is a clustering thing, where you have these like this point cloud of people just swimming around, like billions of them, and they all have certain ideas. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Maybe even the idea of truth will like lessen its power in society that there is such a thing as a truth. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| The whole point is to keep questioning, keep questioning, keep discovering. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| We talk about the Jews and the Talmud and Torah. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| That's the thing that made us humans special, is who can develop these clusters of ideas, hold them in their minds through stories, pass them on to each other, and it grows and grows. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| And it's carried in the minds of millions and thereby has power. But back to Librex. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| They really felt like even outside the classroom, it was hard to be vulnerable. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| They want to feel like they can be authentic. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| And I went to him and I said, Professor, we're almost finished this class. And we haven't even gotten to sort of the reason I originally wanted to take the class was to hear about your perspective on the Middle Eastern conflict.

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