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1965. The thinking machine gets a name. Our final invention.
I. J. Good, 1965: the first ultraintelligent machine is "the last invention that man need ever make." James Barrat put it on a cover in 2013. Both meant it as a kindness.
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Everyone you love was once an almost.
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So is everyone who comes after you. They cannot ask for the decade they need.
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Let the countless minds that could exist inherit our attention.
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Radiant, regulated nervous systems are proof of work to anyone who really looks.
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Relatedness that antifragilizes through hard conversations. Willingness to be wrong out loud. Grokking the pain of nuanced tradeoffs.
Built across decades, on purpose, by people who made a clearing and stayed inside it.
Ask one person this week who theirs is.
Fifteen minutes. Carry their answer back with their permission, and the room gets one wider.