Dr. Kentaro Fujita

Really interested in that.

And related to that is sort of fitting goals into the broader constellation of all the things that we want, like connecting goals to these big underlying values and motivations that we have.

That link is not really well understood.

So we talked a little bit about getting our ducks in a row, seeing like the whys of a particular, like when you think about your goals, the broader motivations of what motivates them.

How did that come to be?

Did our system just know that these things were aligned and now retrospectively we're making the connections?

Or does making the connections have an important impact?

So not just multiple goals, but also levels of goals and how they connect to more fundamental motives and how we know that what a goal is right for us, I think fundamentally requires understanding whether they resonate with these broader motives that we had.

And again, as you mentioned, also like getting things aligned, like that alignment idea.

I don't know that we really understand how people do this.

It's magical.

When we get it right, we do amazing things.

How do we know it was the right thing to do?

There's no textbook.

There's no wiring.

So what are the cues?

What are the signals?

How do we discover what we really want?

Those kinds of things, I think, are the future of our science.

I don't know that it's going to require a lot of methodological development, but I think those are the big questions I'd like to see us address.