Richard Sutton

Maybe Homo sapiens will give rise to a new group of people.

Well, I think it's relevant to point out that for most of humanity, they don't have much influence on what happens.

Most of humanity doesn't influence who can control the atom bomb.

or who controls the nation states.

Even as a citizen, I often feel that we don't control the nation states very much.

They're out of control.

A lot of it has to do with just how you feel about change.

And if you think the current situation is really, really good, then you're more likely to be suspicious of change and averse to change than if you think...

it's imperfect.

And I think it's imperfect.

In fact, I think it's pretty bad.

So I'm open to change.

And I think humanity has had a super good track record.

And maybe it's the best thing that there's been, but it's far from perfect.

We should be concerned about our future, the future.

We should try to make it good.

We also, though, should recognize the limits, our limits.

And I think we want to avoid the feeling of entitlement, avoid the feeling, oh, we're here first.

We should always have it in a good way.

How should we think about the future and how much control a particular species on a particular planet should have over it?