Judea Pearl
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That's a family law, but it has some truth in it, yeah.
First, I had a very, very good education in high school.
I went to a high school in Tel Aviv, yes.
I grew up in Bnei Brak, but the municipality of Tel Aviv gave a quota to its peripheral, to its suburbs.
And Bnei Brak was one of its suburbs.
So from our town, they chose four people.
I was chosen among them.
It was a privilege at the time to go to a Tel Aviv high school.
And we had a beautiful education.
You know why?
Because my high school teachers were professors in Heidelberg and Berlin that were pushed out by Hitler.
And when they came to Israel, they couldn't find academic jobs, so they taught high school.
And we were just privileged and lucky to be part of this unique educational experiment.
My first language is Hebrew.
All the studies were in Hebrew.
Huh, interesting.
They had to struggle.
Some of them still had the Yakish accent.
In causal reasoning or in toward the... I guess toward AGI in general.
If that is a goal, I don't think we are much closer.