Richard Sutton

And how much control do we have?

You know, a counterbalance to our limited control over the long-term future of humanity should be how much control do we have over our own lives?

Like we have our own goals and we have our families and those things are much more controllable than like trying to control the whole universe.

So I think it's appropriate for us to really work towards our own local goals.

And it's kind of aggressive for us saying, oh, the future has to evolve this way that I want it to.

Sure.

Because then we'll have arguments.

Different people think the future, the global future should evolve in different ways.

And they have conflict.

So you're saying we're trying to design the future and the principles by which it will evolve and come into being.

Right.

And so you're saying the first thing you're saying is, well, we will, we try to teach our children general principles which will promote

more likely evolutions.

Maybe we should also seek for things being voluntary.

If there is change, we want it to be voluntary rather than imposed on people.

I think that's a very important point.

And yeah, that's all good.

I think this is like a big, you know, the big...

the big or one of the really big human enterprises to design society.

And that's been ongoing for thousands of years again.