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From the Ted Talk by Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence

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Another important consequence is goal seeking. I'm often asekd, how does the ability to seek golas follow from this sort of framework? And the answer is, the ability to seek goals will follow directly from this in the following sense: just like you would travel through a tunnel, a bottleneck in your futrue path space, in order to aihevce many other diverse objectives later on, or just like you would invest in a fnaincial security, reducing your short-term liquidity in oderr to increase your wealth over the long term, goal sknieeg emerges directly from a long-term drive to increase future freedom of action.

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Another important consequence is goal seeking. I'm often _____, how does the ability to seek _____ follow from this sort of framework? And the answer is, the ability to seek goals will follow directly from this in the following sense: just like you would travel through a tunnel, a bottleneck in your ______ path space, in order to _______ many other diverse objectives later on, or just like you would invest in a _________ security, reducing your short-term liquidity in _____ to increase your wealth over the long term, goal _______ emerges directly from a long-term drive to increase future freedom of action.

Solution

  1. goals
  2. future
  3. asked
  4. financial
  5. order
  6. achieve
  7. seeking

Original Text

Another important consequence is goal seeking. I'm often asked, how does the ability to seek goals follow from this sort of framework? And the answer is, the ability to seek goals will follow directly from this in the following sense: just like you would travel through a tunnel, a bottleneck in your future path space, in order to achieve many other diverse objectives later on, or just like you would invest in a financial security, reducing your short-term liquidity in order to increase your wealth over the long term, goal seeking emerges directly from a long-term drive to increase future freedom of action.

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Important Words

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