Give time for one quick more or do you have to go? Sure. So if I'm not a hard stop, so happy to keep track. Eric, then you have the last question.

Okay. So I see in the chat, how do you figure in the humans attempting to slow the rate of technological progress intentionally or not? Will that impact the more pure theory that we could actually? Yes, it might. So I think that's a couple of things. First off, even though I think the very long-term patterns of progress do show this kind of, you know, this accelerating pattern that almost feels sometimes like an unstoppable juggernaut. I do not think that progress is automatic or inevitable. I think it's contingent. It depends on choice and effort. Ultimately, it's up to us. We have to choose to continue driving it forward. And ultimately, we have to believe that progress is both possible and desirable in order to do that. And that's why I talk about these things. I do think that, you know, this sort of notion of, oh, you have this super exponential curve, that's true when you zoom way out. When you zoom in, the curve is really wiggly and bumpy, like any other complex, a social or even biological phenomenon. It doesn't, like, you know, it doesn't obey really strict, simple laws the way physics and chemistry do. There's too much complexity in there. And, you know, history overall is one of progress, but there are episodes in certain times and places of slowdown, of stagnation, of regress, even of collapse. And I think all of those things are possible to us, although I would be surprised if we collapsed and regressed too far. But I think we could have something of, you know, could accurately be described in those terms. No, progress is not guaranteed. And who knows what the next 20 years will bring exactly. I think 50 years ago, you know, if we'd been talking about this, we would have said that in 2020, we'd have nuclear power and everything and we'd have, you know, moon bases and flying cars and lots of cool stuff like that and supersonic passenger travel. And none of that stuff exactly came true the way we were envisioning it. Yes, these things can always be subject to random shocks and cultural inputs that you didn't expect. And so.

One reason more to build some positive worlds and keep up pushing. Thank you so much, Jason. I was a tutor like to have you here. I shared a little bit more info about you here in the chat as well. But if you maybe just want to leave people with is there any relevant info for say, builders about any upcoming, you know, any upcoming publications of was a progress or any upcoming, I don't know, fellowship deadlines or anything else that people should know about here as a bit close to

them. We don't have any deadlines yet, but we will be announcing probably in the next, you know, in the coming months, we'll be announcing the next cohort of the Roots of Progress fellowship, which is for progress writers, you know, keeping an eye on for that. The best way to do that is to probably subscribe to the Roots of Progress sub stack, which you can find on, you know, the link to that from roots of progress.org. And or follow me on Twitter. I'm Jason Crawford on Twitter and I spend too much time there. I'm also on threads and work cast and other fun social networks like that. Really? Yeah, also, and I don't know if foresight is on warp cast yet, but you should you should totally be there given the crypto interests.

Okay, we'll join another one to bump into each other. Okay, I shared a sub stack here at least and then the Twitter, I think is pretty easy to find you there. Thank you so much for joining. I really appreciate it. That was a lot of content in a very short time, very much appreciated. And I hope to see you in person very soon.

Thanks everybody. Best of luck. And I look forward to seeing what you all come up with through this program.