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Everyone Rich actively tracks — researchers, founders, investors, writers — one page each, kept current. Not a fan page: a working reference.

101 people
Adam Tooze
HELD (strengthened): capex-as-macro-event (now visible in PPI +27% electronics, trade flows, Korea $576B); energy-binding (US utility $1.4T plans); revenue-gap…
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Ajeya Cotra
Transformative AI is more likely than not this century, the most natural path leads to AI takeover unless we build specific countermeasures, and the bio-anchors…
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Alex Karp
AI is the decisive technology for Western democratic security — Palantir builds the software that governments and militaries need to wield AI effectively, and pretending…
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Alex Wissner-Gross
Intelligence is a physical phenomenon — maximizing future freedom of action — and AI capability follows from compute, data, and algorithmic insight more than from any…
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Alvin Wang Graylin
An optimist who insists on being a realist — AI and immersive tech can deliver genuine abundance, but only if the governance work (aligned incentives, an AI Bill of…
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Andrej Karpathy
WRONG (ours, not his): file carried “Founder, Eureka Labs” as current — he joined Anthropic pre-training 19 May 2026, a month BEFORE our 16 Jun review. The review missed…
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Andrew Ng
AI is the new electricity — it will transform every industry — and the most important thing right now is making AI skills and tools accessible to everyone, not just…
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Anousheh Ansari
Breakthroughs are not waited for, they are incentivized — design a prize precisely enough and you can summon capability that no grant, procurement or roadmap would have…
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Anton Korinek
If AI becomes truly transformative, the economic consequences — for growth, wages, labor share, and inequality — are far more varied and extreme than standard economic…
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Anu Bradford
The EU's regulatory model will shape global AI rules whether other nations like it or not — the "Brussels Effect" means companies adopt EU standards worldwide to avoid…
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Astro Teller
Radical innovation is not a talent problem but a process problem — build an institution that makes killing your own best ideas cheap, fast and socially rewarded, and…
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Aza Raskin
AI's first harm is not rogue superintelligence but the misaligned incentives of the firms building it — race dynamics that deploy persuasive, reality-eroding systems…
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Ben Lamm
Extinction is an engineering problem, and the tools built to reverse it are worth more than the reversals — de-extinction is the flagship that funds and markets a…
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Benedict Evans
AI is a genuine platform shift on the scale of the web and mobile, but the interesting questions are about products, business models, and diffusion timing — not…
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Carl Benedikt Frey
History shows that technological revolutions are usually labor-replacing before they are labor-augmenting, and the transition period — measured in generations, not years…
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Cathie Wood
Public markets systematically underprice exponential technologies because benchmark-hugging institutions are structurally unable to hold them — so concentrate in…
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Chris Olah
We are deploying systems we do not understand; mechanistic interpretability — reverse-engineering the internal computations of neural networks — is the load-bearing path…
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Cory Doctorow
AI is an enshittification accelerator — it makes the already-broken pattern of platform capture worse, faster — and the solution is not AI governance in isolation but…
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Daniel Kokotajlo
AGI is arriving within years, not decades; the world is catastrophically under-prepared, and the labs are not being honest about what they know.
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Daniela Amodei
A safety-focused frontier lab can only function if its operations, hiring, policy, and trust-building scale as fast as its research — the institutional layer is the…
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Dario Amodei
Powerful AI is coming fast, will be profoundly positive if we get safety right, and the best path is for safety-focused labs to lead at the frontier.
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Daron Acemoglu
Tech doesn't automatically benefit workers — institutions, market power, and design choices determine who wins, and current AI is mostly skewing the wrong way.
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Dave Blundin
Scaling laws are the dominant force in AI; agents are the deployment unlock; most enterprises are dramatically underestimating the speed and scope of disruption.
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David Autor
AI is the first technology in ~40 years with realistic potential to narrow wage inequality rather than widen it — by codifying expert judgment and pushing it down the…
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David Chalmers
We cannot yet determine whether LLMs are conscious, but the question is serious and tractable — there is roughly a 25% or greater chance we'll have conscious AI within a…
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David Shapiro
AI substitution across all four dimensions of human economic value (strength, dexterity, cognition, empathy) breaks the social contract — and only a full stack of…
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Demis Hassabis
AI is the tool that will accelerate scientific discovery beyond anything previously possible — and "solving intelligence" is a tractable scientific problem we should…
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Diane Francis
Canadian-American journalist, author, and geopolitical commentator
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Ed Zitron
The frontier AI buildout is a bubble — the economics don't work, the products don't deliver on the promises, and the tech industry is engaged in a collective delusion…
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
Building superintelligent AI without solving alignment first defaults to human extinction; the rational policy is a hard global moratorium.
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Elon Musk
AI is probably the biggest existential risk humanity faces — and the best response is to build it yourself, fast, with "maximum truth-seeking" as the alignment strategy.
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Emad Mostaque
AI is a civilizational-scale force; open, decentralized, sovereign AI is the only safe path — closed, centralized AI in a few labs is the actual existential risk. New…
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Eric Schmidt
AI is primarily a great-power-competition problem; the US must out-build and out-secure China — through compute, energy, export controls, and tighter government-industry…
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Erik Brynjolfsson
AI is augmentation tech if we choose to use it that way — but the J-curve means productivity gains lag capability by years.
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Ethan Mollick
AI is already changing knowledge work in measurable ways — but nobody knows exactly how, organizations are mostly fumbling the adoption, and the honest answer to "what…
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Ezra Klein
AI is the most consequential story of our time, and the mainstream discourse about it — among policymakers, journalists, and the public — is dangerously behind the…
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Fei-Fei Li
AI must be built around human needs, not just technical benchmarks — and the people building it must include voices beyond Silicon Valley's default demographic if the…
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Gary Marcus
Current LLMs are impressive but fundamentally flawed — they don't reason, they hallucinate, they can't be trusted for critical applications — and the AI field needs to…
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Geoffrey Hinton
I co-built deep learning, I now think there's a real chance it ends badly, and I left Google so I could say so — the right move is much more safety investment, fast. New…
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Helen Toner
Frontier AI labs cannot be trusted to self-regulate; "trust me" is not a governance strategy; the institutional design problem is at least as load-bearing as the…
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Ilya Sutskever
Superintelligence is approaching this decade and almost certainly via scaling; the only responsible move is to build exclusively the safe variant, with no commercial…
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Jack Clark
AI capability is accelerating faster than most observers internalize; the tractable response is industry transparency, third-party evaluation infrastructure, and…
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Jan Leike
Alignment is the central technical challenge of our time, frontier labs are systematically under-investing in it, and the people closest to the problem keep leaving…
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Jared Kaplan
AI progress follows smooth, physics-like power laws in compute, data, and parameters — making capability growth forecastable, timelines short, and safety work urgent…
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Jaron Lanier
The people whose data trains AI should be paid for it — "data dignity" is the structural fix for an economy where tech companies extract value from human creativity and…
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Jasmine Sun
AI debates are missing the social, generational, and political contexts in which the technology actually lands — the meaningful story is cultural, not just technical,…
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Jensen Huang
We are in the early innings of an AI industrial revolution; the world needs to build "AI factories" at massive scale, and NVIDIA is the company that makes the machines…
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Jeremy Rifkin
Capitalism is being eclipsed by a collaborative commons as technology drives marginal costs toward zero, and the real question isn't whether work ends but what replaces…
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Jim Rutt
The current civilizational operating system ("Game A" — rivalrous, extractive, growth-on-a-finite-planet) is hitting hard limits; AI is an accelerant that could tip it;…
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John Jumper
AI can solve fundamental scientific problems that have resisted decades of traditional research — AlphaFold proved this for protein structure prediction, and the…
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Jonathan Haidt
The shift from play-based to phone-based childhood has caused an epidemic of youth mental illness — and AI-powered recommendation algorithms, chatbots, and generative…
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Jordan Hall
Civilization's collective sense-making is breaking down faster than its problems are growing; the response is to rebuild individual sovereignty and collective…
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Kai-Fu Lee
The AI race is not one contest but many — China and the US are each winning different races — and whoever masters AI deployment at scale (not just research) will shape…
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Kate Crawford
AI is not artificial and is only weakly "intelligent" — it is an extractive industrial system built on labor, data, minerals, water, and energy, and treating it as…
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Katja Grace
The most useful thing we can do for AI forecasting is measure what researchers actually believe, track how those beliefs shift, and ground the discourse in data rather…
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Leopold Aschenbrenner
AGI is plausibly here by 2027, an intelligence explosion follows within ~2 years, and the only safe path is a US-government-led national AGI project that out-builds and…
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Lina Khan
The AI industry is replicating the concentration patterns of the prior tech era — a few dominant firms controlling compute, models, and distribution — and antitrust…
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Logan Kilpatrick
The winner of the model race is decided at the developer layer — whoever makes building with AI cheapest, fastest and least frustrating captures the ecosystem,…
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Marc Andreessen
AI is a civilizational accelerant; deceleration — not deployment — is the moral failure. New since v1: "the biggest technological revolution of my life, bigger than the…
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Mariana Mazzucato
The state funded the foundational research behind AI (and the internet, GPS, touchscreens) — if the public bore the risk, it should share the reward, and AI governance…
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Mark Pincus
Most founders confuse new with better — durable companies come from taking a proven business model into a market you personally care about, not from inventing a category…
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Mark Zuckerberg
Open-source AI is the right default for the industry — it makes models safer through transparency, accelerates innovation, and prevents any single company from…
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Mary Meeker
Technology adoption follows measurable S-curves, and AI is now the steepest one — the macro data says this platform shift will restructure enterprise productivity, labor…
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Max Tegmark
AI poses a genuine existential risk that requires organized, mainstream advocacy — including, if necessary, pausing frontier development until safety catches up — and…
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Melanie Mitchell
Current LLMs are impressively capable but do not understand in the way humans do — they lack genuine conceptual abstraction and analogical reasoning, and confusing…
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Mira Lane
Technology's failures are failures of imagination and humanity before they are failures of engineering — so the work is to put creative practice inside the build…
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Mustafa Suleyman
AI is one strand of a "coming wave" of dual-use technologies that will be uncontainable by default — containment, not pause and not unrestrained acceleration, is the…
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Nate Herk
YouTube: Search "Nate Herk" — AI consulting content Community: AI Automation Society (free community call) What he does: Helps people with enterprise/consulting…
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Neal Stephenson
The stories a civilization tells about its future constrain the futures it is able to build — so the shortage of credible optimistic fiction is a practical engineering…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Scientific literacy is civic infrastructure — a population that cannot reason about evidence cannot govern itself through a technological transition, and making science…
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Nick Bostrom
Superintelligence is the central transition humanity faces; the default outcome is catastrophic, but the problem is tractable if treated as a philosophy/engineering…
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Nikhyl Singhal
AI doesn't kill the PM role — it raises the bar dramatically. The bottom of the PM pyramid compresses, the top becomes vastly more leveraged, and the "AI-native PM" is a…
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Nita Farahany
The next frontier of human rights is cognitive liberty — the right to mental privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination over your own brain data — and AI +…
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Noam Brown
Inference-time search and reasoning is a new scaling dimension comparable to pretraining; modest test-time compute can deliver gains worth orders of magnitude more…
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Palmer Luckey
Western defense procurement is a broken system that pays for cost overruns rather than working products — so build the products at commercial speed, on fixed-price…
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Paul Christiano
AI alignment is a solvable but urgent technical problem; the right approach is rigorous worst-case analysis plus practical evals of frontier models, and ~10–20%…
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Peter Diamandis
Converging exponentials (AI + biotech + robotics + energy + materials) are driving us toward a world of abundance faster than linear thinkers can absorb — now sharpened…
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Peter Thiel
We live in technological stagnation disguised by digital progress — AI's promise is real, but only if pursued as definite optimism; monopoly is the engine, competition…
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Pope Leo XIV
AI is the defining "Rerum Novarum moment" of the 21st century — a civilizational shift in work, knowledge, and human relations that demands the Catholic Church's moral…
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Ramez Naam
13 years at Microsoft (Outlook, Internet Explorer, Bing) before pivoting fully to climate tech and futurism. Author of the Nexus trilogy (Nexus, Crux, Apex — Philip K.…
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Richard Dawkins
Universal Darwinism is the master frame — selection acts on any replicator with variation and differential success, so AI should be analyzed as a new substrate for…
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Rod Roddenberry
The most valuable thing his father made was not a franchise but a usable picture of a good future — and stewarding that, rather than merely monetizing it, is the job.
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Sabrina Romanoff
High-functioning anxiety, relationship dynamics, and achievement pressure are the modern psychological landscape — and they deserve rigorous clinical attention, not…
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Sal Khan
AI can be the great equalizer in education — giving every student a personal tutor and every teacher an assistant — but only if we build it deliberately for learning,…
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Salim Ismail
Linear organizations get killed by exponential ones — and as of 2026 he has renamed and sharpened the thesis: AI is dissolving the coordination costs that justified…
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Sam Altman
Superintelligence is coming this decade, abundance is the destination, and we need new economic structures to share the gains. New since v1: the ship-and-learn CEO now…
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Sam McCandlish
The behavior of large models under training is a lawful, predictable physical system — and that predictability is itself the foundation of safety, because you can…
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Satya Nadella
AI is the platform shift of our era — Microsoft's job is to build the infrastructure layer that makes AI useful for every organization, and the OpenAI partnership is the…
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Shoshana Zuboff
AI is the operational core of a new economic logic — "surveillance capitalism" — that extracts behavioral data as raw material, manufactures prediction products, and…
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Stuart Russell
AI risk is real but tractable through architectural redesign — build systems that are uncertain about their objective and learn human preferences rather than optimize a…
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Sundar Pichai
AI is the most profound technology humanity is working on — Google/Alphabet intends to be the company that integrates research, infrastructure, and distribution into a…
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Timnit Gebru
The most pressing AI harms are present, structural, and concentrated on marginalized people — not speculative future superintelligence — and the discourse that elevates…
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Toby Ord
Humanity faces a one-in-six chance of existential catastrophe this century, with unaligned AI as the single largest contributor; reducing this risk is the moral priority…
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Tom Brown
Scaling works and is predictable; the frontier is an engineering problem; safety-motivated people should be the ones doing the scaling.
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Tristan Harris
AI is the most powerful persuasion and manipulation technology ever built — the attention economy was the warm-up act, and without a fundamental shift in how AI systems…
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Tyler Cowen
AI is real and big — capability may already be "AGI on most things humans care about" — but diffusion is slow, gains are uneven, and institutions are the bottleneck.
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Vitalik Buterin
AI x-risk is real, but a moratorium is both infeasible and dangerous; the right path is
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Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism is already dead — replaced by techno-feudalism, in which "cloud capital" extracts rent from users, workers, and traditional capitalists alike — and AI is the…
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Yann LeCun
Current LLMs are an off-ramp from human-level AI — "basically a dead end" — the path is non-autoregressive world-model architectures (JEPA), and x-risk concerns are…
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Yoshua Bengio
AI risks (misuse, loss of control) are real and growing; safety is technically tractable but politically lagging — we need governance now and a "Scientist AI" research…
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Yuval Noah Harari
AI is the most powerful information network ever created, and like every prior information network, it will reshape power, truth, and human self-understanding — except…
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