homework

Is there anything we as the humanity don't know in order to get our shit together and create something meaningful and generative/in cooperative with each other despite the history, our differences and all that faff?

ChatGPT said:

Yes. Humanity lacks consistent operational knowledge in three critical areas:

1. Systems of aligned incentives at scale – We don’t fully understand how to structure social, economic, and political systems so that cooperation is the default outcome rather than competition, especially when individual and collective interests diverge.

2. Psychological integration – We lack methods for reliably transforming individual and collective cognitive/emotional biases (fear, tribalism, status-seeking) into behaviors that sustain long-term generative collaboration.

3. Cultural evolution mechanics – We understand some elements of memes, norms, and institutions, but we have no robust framework for intentionally designing culture that can adapt, absorb shocks, and reinforce cooperative generativity without collapsing into hierarchy, dogma, or stagnation.
   

Everything else—technology, material resources, communication tools—can be improvised once these three are operationally understood. The gap is not scarcity; it is the lack of a repeatable architecture for human systems that reliably produces durable cooperation and shared creation.