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Good idea, but not likely. If ambition was a weak attractive force, like gravity, then ego would be a localized, strong repulsive force, like two positive electro-magnetic forces.

Estimating the ego of Wolfram and Lenat, it would take somewhere on the order of 10^9 ambitious geniuses for the net force of ambition to overcome the local force of ego.



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