I'm delighted to be the associate director of what's called the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego. I think we have to balance the pessimism where you sound really smart because you can predict the sky is falling And and no one really ever keeps the receipts, right? We we like polarization we like going in one direction the other one very uncomfortable being in the middle There's an old Yiddish saying that you stand in the middle of the road you get hit by both sides of the traveling Tell us about it.

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