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This is a hot topic right now.

Yeah.

So one area that we're really interested in is what we've called AI for human reasoning.

And this is kind of one large focus for FLF right now.

It's not the only focus, but it's an important one.

We have some other kind of back burner priorities that we're trying to work on as well.

But when we say human reasoning, what do we mean human?

Well, both individuals, but also groups and all the way up to large societies and even humanity as a whole.

And then reasoning, we're referring to the kind of the whole decision-making cycle.

So

from making observations, coming to understandings, modeling the world, and with groups, we're talking about communicating, and then through to making decisions and even acting together and coordinating and this kind of thing.

So reasoning is supposed to encompass this whole thing.

And part of why we think this is an important kind of package of things to consider together is that they're really important synergies.

So when you understand things better, you can come to better decisions.

When you can come to better decisions and understand each other better, you can coordinate better and so on.

There's all these interesting synergies.

So the other reason we think it's important right now is, of course, the world is only getting more complicated and enabling...

individuals and groups and societies to reason better about the options we have in front of us for our near and long-term future it's going to be really important to make sure that that goes well it's very often things kind of just kind of meander around it feels like things are happening by accident or it feels like things aren't really being chosen in a what we might think of as a wise way

And often things go in directions that really not anyone wants.

And that's, you know, on its face, that's paradoxical.