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English word

direction

A2Frequent NGSL-1
UK /dəˈrekʃn/US /dəˈrekʃn/
noun

the general position a person or thing moves or points towards

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Coupang: How a Harvard Dropout Built Korea's Most Valuable Startup | CNBC video example

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There had been this nagging feeling for months, where we had to be honest with ourselves and said, once you go public, it’s much harder to really change your direction.

Coupang: How a Harvard Dropout Built Korea's Most Valuable Startup

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then you start to fit the company's direction into your organization, which should not be that way.

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The dangers would be that artificial general intelligence or digital superintelligence decouples from the collective human will and goes in a direction that, for some reason, we don't like.

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