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I witnessed the message spread out across widening circles of

as the state became more lenient in its treatment of dissidents

I grew up behind the Iron Curtain and had a front row seat when

even if they silently and perhaps subconsciously concurred.

Wiener’s lens brings out some interesting aspects of the

Norbert Wiener looked at the world through the

and we spent the next four hours discussing

he wore a button with a text on it: Speak the truth even if your voice

I found myself in a bland franchise eatery next to a noisy California

becoming one of its few computer game developers

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (New York: Henry Holt

where we find meaning and purpose in our lives even though we

so let’s not place humanity in the position of those

we’re in trouble. People don’t think twice about flooding

we need to figure out how to make AI understand

and polarization. Unless the third goal can be met

so if we can amplify our own intelligence with AGI

making forecasts that are either too optimistic—

and underestimation of emerging technologies. Darwinian

when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” 17 For