For one, I don't think humanity has developed thinking/communication styles and models that are sophisticated enough to engage in sufficiently cooperative behav

For one, I don't think humanity has developed thinking/communication styles and models that are sophisticated enough to engage in sufficiently cooperative behavior at scale. For two: > But I don’t know the answers. Very few people are able to do what you just did: realize that they do not actually know something (see: politics, covid, any culture war topic, etc). This is actually a sophisticated skill, and to say that we do not teach it would be a massive understatement. > Maybe the hope is that future generations are smarter and more empathetic than us. My concern is that even if they are much smarter at what we teach, if we're not teaching the skills that are needed (which may not be definitively known yet), we would still fail. It seems entirely possible to me that humanity is a dead species walking, but we are simply not able to properly and broadly conceptualize that to the degree necessary to wake up and change course.