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      <image:caption>“i believe in straight lines on plots”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“This raises philosophical questions that feel largely unexplored.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“This suggests to me at the diversity and profound power of what we might experience is immense.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Imagine you're an artificial superintelligence released into the cosmos”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“This debate divides us at the very top of industry and is the most philosophically interesting on earth.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“A blank canvas of possibility, an invitation to fill an empty universe with life?”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“I assume god wants what I'd want for my children.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“This encapsulates what is if not moral insanity then a morality of necessity”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“a truly wise, conscious, moral being informed by diverse experience”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“a prison so complete the prisoner doesn't know he's locked up”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“This is a powerful cognitive technology”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“I'd want similar selfless service from AI and my fellow man”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“The barrier to rational debate is our inability to agree on even the premise of our reality”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“our most brilliant thought leaders admit they do not know the answer to these questions”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“our prosperity relies on remembering our future isn't zero-sum”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Imagine a universe where the life of Viktor Frankl and many others was required experience”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“To stop evil we must understand it.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“each better path that is and was available to us is beyond our sight”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“In the future, contracts will be enforced by AI, but more importantly, they’ll apply to AI.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“A person, a company, a community, and a nation are a nexus of contracts both financial and social”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“a framework for enforcing agreements between all forms of intelligence”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“the process itself perfects the builder even as it protects the world”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“demonstrate, through binding agreements kept over time, that they can be trusted with such power.”</image:caption>
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