Prefatory remarks on 'Oppenheimer'

From the blog post:

Part of what makes the Manhattan Project interesting is that we can chart the arcs of moral thinking of multiple participants. It's tempting to adopt a stance of mostly judging those participants, but I think it's more useful to focus first on empathetically understanding what the arc was, from the inside; in the light of such understanding we may be better able to decide our own relationship to science and technology. Here are four caricatures. They are historically incomplete, but nonetheless useful as models to consider in the light of AI.