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Table of contents

• Paul's Road to Damascus Conversion
• SparkNotes: Romeo and Juliet: Table of Contents
• Christianity
• Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence
• Paul made a miraculous turnaround on the road to Damascus

Instead, it is an unholy alliance of nationalists ranging from the left to the Islamic right that is inciting hatred against free thinkers and those of other faiths. According to Ergil, there is a "mixture of fanatical nationalism and militant religious fervor" that prepared the ground for the Malatya massacre -- and that also appears to have been behind the murders of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and Roman Catholic priest Andrea Santoro last year.

Experts like Ergil see the murders as part of an unsettling new trend, in which fanatical nationalist-religious groups see violence as a "cleansing force" and themselves as supposed "saviors of the nation" -- like the and year-old attackers in Malatya, who were students and all lived in the same conservative Islamic dormitory. The hate speech comes from both the left and the right.

She claims that those who encourage citizens to convert to another religion want to divide Turkey. Christianity is gaining ground in Turkey, especially in the southeast, the chairman of the far-right nationalist Great Union Party BBP recently warned, even going so far as to accuse Christian missionaries of being "supported by the CIA.

And yet, all nationalist sentiment aside, Turks were shocked by the brutal murders, which the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quick to condemn. Erdogan wants to bring Turkey into the European fold. But to do so, says Joost Lagendijk, a Dutch member of the European parliament for the GreenLeft party who is himself married to a Turkish woman, it must "actively appeal to its citizens to accept people of other religions and ethnic origins.

As far back as , the country's National Security Council, under then Prime Minister Ecevit, classified "missionary activities" as a threat to national security. The government office of religion has in the past distributed sample sermons targeted against missionaries. In addition, Erdogan's government, which is dominated by his right-wing Justice and Development Party AKP , undermines its credibility when, for example, an official like Minister of State Mehmet Aydin claims that missionary activities are not "an innocent declaration of religious beliefs, but rather a planned movement with political goals.

The more aggressive forms of Christianity, such as that espoused by free evangelical churches, are especially suspect to many Turks.

Even the friendly Muslim who worked in the office next door to Tilman Geske became skeptical when he heard that the German was "proselytizing. And yet, he says, he is not pleased about some of the things he hears, such as the rumor that missionaries "place money in the Bibles that they hand out in front of our schools. There was no sign on the door of the Zirve publishing company's office in Malatya -- a deliveryman was attacked there two years ago and nationalists later staged angry protests in front of the building.

You can also find the exact opposite of such sunny optimism. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable. No one is suggesting that anything like superintelligence exists now. In fact, we still have nothing approaching a general-purpose artificial intelligence or even a clear path to how it could be achieved.

Artificial neural networks can learn for themselves to recognize cats in photos. But they must be shown hundreds of thousands of examples and still end up much less accurate at spotting cats than a child. This is where skeptics such as Brooks , a founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics, come in. In this view, AI could possibly lead to intelligent machines, but it would take much more work than people like Bostrom imagine.

Christianity

And even if it could happen, intelligence will not necessarily lead to sentience. Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. It just seems a bit daft. If you ask a fusion researcher what they do, they say they work on containment. A superintelligence would be godlike, but would it be animated by wrath or by love? Like any parent, we must give our child a set of values.

And not just any values, but those that are in the best interest of humanity. How to proceed? AI would, we hope, wish to give us rich, happy, fulfilling lives: fix our sore backs and show us how to get to Mars.

Look at the way Tariq integrates photographs of the men in their youth, including Mark, into the arc of this story. Sugar Land , with its dreamy July 4th interludes, its puffs of fireworks smoke that on one startling occasion merge with an image of smoke from an air raid, is no exception. The film started as "a small little comedy piece about somebody who went missing," Tariq has said, but grew into something far richer.

This is a personal story. He went to high school in Sugar Land; the men in the masks are his friends.

Mark went to a neighboring school and was the friend of a friend—"Kylo Ren," in the film. But nothing drives the point home like the doubts these men can only express from behind masks. Doubts about whether Mark is so wrong to criticize the ways Muslims in America have grown complacent. Doubts about whether blacks or Muslims or those who reside at their intersection have it worse in this country.

Paul made a miraculous turnaround on the road to Damascus

Tariq edits the conversations down into short but extraordinarily vivid scenes that suffuse the film with sadness, above all else. Ghosts of Sugar Land ends poignantly, with the men expressing their doubts over who Mark is, what his intentions might have been, whether they could have done more to steer him in the direction of a more righteous path through Islam, and whether he is even alive. The man might be gone from their lives. But fear never leaves.