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Clawed - by Dean W. Ball - Hyperdimensional

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On Anthropic and the Department of War

I. A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die. Six months prior, he had been a vigorous man, stronger than I am today, faster and more resilient on a bike than most 20-somethings. Then one day he got heart surgery and he was never the same. His soul had been sucked out of him, the life gone from his eyes. He had moments of vivacity, when my father came back into his aging body, but these became rarer with time. His coherence faded, his voice grew quieter. He spent those six months in and out of the hospital. And then on his last day he went into hospice. That…

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