On Courage: Facing The Void | Anna Wang
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I'm an MTS at Anthropic. Previously, I was a research scientist on Google DeepMind's Frontier Safety team.
Sometimes I think about the void. “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and gatherer, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician,…
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