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The only intelligible sense that progress or advance can have among men, is that we have a definite vision, and that we wish to make the whole world like that vision.
>1983...my thesis was "automatic generation of plausible disinformation"... >[in 1989] I went to DARPA as a program manager

The fact is that very few political, social, and especially personal problems arise because of insufficient information

Quotes on Models and Their Uses
Beware when value modeling…
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
I do fear that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty will be dealt by this country, in the failure of its example on the earth.”
I found it was their daily taunt against Christianity that it was the light of one people and had left all others to die in the dark. But I also found that it was their special boast for themselves that science and progress were the discovery of one people, and that all other peoples had died in the dark.
that glorious vision of doing good, which is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds,
it should be quite unknown, for any modern trade to have a ritual poetry. How did people come to chant rude poems while pulling certain ropes or gathering certain fruit, and why did nobody do anything of the kind while producing any of the modern things?
Missing the Point
The Point is shrouded, enclosed by cloud.
Familiar curve of land juts straight out
into white void whose silence is belied
with rhythm of rocks beat by incoming tide.
I see where the land heads but not where it ends
and I can’t help but think of conversations with friends
which all seemed to take the same form.
Once again I start
for the
poetry and gold and dross