Stop for a second and think that some living legends are among us. Examples:

Roger Penrose

James Watson

Jane Goodall

Noam Chomsky

Daniel Kahneman

John Searle

This recent interview with Douglas Hofstadter reinforces in me the idea that even before any risk of misalignment, the biggest risk already upon us is a crisis of motivation.

Tired: turning your bedroom into a camera obscura.

Wired: replicate the entire history of camera technology inside Blender.

Enantiodromia

Wikipedia informs: Enantiodromia (Ancient Greek: ἐναντίος, romanized: enantios – “opposite” and δρόμος, dromos – “running course”) is a principle introduced in the West by psychiatrist Carl Jung. In Psychological Types, Jung defines enantiodromia as “the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time.”[1] It is similar to the principle of equilibrium in the natural world, in that any extreme is opposed by the system in order …

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