I just came back to this, and realized I didn’t say it the first time. This is great, I really like it, and I may chat with you about using it sometime.
Beautiful! I love that pair of concepts that each have seemingly limitless dimension to explore can be represented together so elegantly by a single curve!
I like symbols!
I see Moloch as Speed / Acceleration, and it's complement as Direction / Alignment; so not quiet the same way as you described.
There is a balance between Moloch (which I think of as the forces of exploitation) and Slack (which I think of as the forces of exploration).
Scott Alexander writes:
LW is mostly not a design website, but Scott's post inspired me to make a symbol for this concept. It's a Taijitu of Moloch and Slack as created by the inadequate equilibria and the hillock:
You can find a higher resolution image and a svg-file of this symbol here