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By Eliezer Yudkowsky · Machine Intelligence Research Institute · 2015

#17 in 2015·#4 in Gaming·#8 in Film·#9 in Art·#11 in Literature

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"An comparison between common heroic motivations between American and Japanese fiction."

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