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From the Ted Talk by Damon Horowitz: We need a "moral operating system"

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So imagine that right now you went and you found your msaiucin friend. And you're telling him what we're talking about, about our whole data rulvoitoen and all this — maybe even hum a few bars of our theme music. ♫ Dum ta da da dum dum ta da da dum ♫ Well, your musician frneid will stop you and say, "You know, the thmee music for your data revolution, that's an opera, that's waengr. It's besad on Norse legend. It's Gods and mythical creatures fniithgg over magical jewelry." That's interesting. Now it's also a beautiful opera, and we're moved by that orpea. We're moved because it's about the battle between good and evil, about right and wrong. And we care about right and wrong. We care what happens in that opera. We care what happens in "Apocalypse Now." And we certainly care what happens with our technologies.

Open Cloze


So imagine that right now you went and you found your ________ friend. And you're telling him what we're talking about, about our whole data __________ and all this — maybe even hum a few bars of our theme music. ♫ Dum ta da da dum dum ta da da dum ♫ Well, your musician ______ will stop you and say, "You know, the _____ music for your data revolution, that's an opera, that's ______. It's _____ on Norse legend. It's Gods and mythical creatures ________ over magical jewelry." That's interesting. Now it's also a beautiful opera, and we're moved by that _____. We're moved because it's about the battle between good and evil, about right and wrong. And we care about right and wrong. We care what happens in that opera. We care what happens in "Apocalypse Now." And we certainly care what happens with our technologies.

Solution


  1. wagner
  2. based
  3. theme
  4. musician
  5. friend
  6. opera
  7. fighting
  8. revolution

Original Text


So imagine that right now you went and you found your musician friend. And you're telling him what we're talking about, about our whole data revolution and all this — maybe even hum a few bars of our theme music. ♫ Dum ta da da dum dum ta da da dum ♫ Well, your musician friend will stop you and say, "You know, the theme music for your data revolution, that's an opera, that's Wagner. It's based on Norse legend. It's Gods and mythical creatures fighting over magical jewelry." That's interesting. Now it's also a beautiful opera, and we're moved by that opera. We're moved because it's about the battle between good and evil, about right and wrong. And we care about right and wrong. We care what happens in that opera. We care what happens in "Apocalypse Now." And we certainly care what happens with our technologies.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
moral framework 6
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da dum 4
da ta 3
dum da 2
moral operating 2
abstract form 2
thought ethics 2
musician friend 2
theme music 2
dum ta 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
dum da ta 2
ta da dum 2
dum ta da 2

Important Words


  1. bars
  2. based
  3. battle
  4. beautiful
  5. care
  6. creatures
  7. da
  8. data
  9. dum
  10. evil
  11. fighting
  12. friend
  13. gods
  14. good
  15. hum
  16. imagine
  17. interesting
  18. jewelry
  19. legend
  20. magical
  21. moved
  22. music
  23. musician
  24. mythical
  25. norse
  26. opera
  27. revolution
  28. stop
  29. ta
  30. talking
  31. technologies
  32. telling
  33. theme
  34. wagner
  35. wrong