If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself. - Immanuel Kant
What Kant is essentially saying is that formative conditioning establishes an operating system.
Yes, a very poor operating system.
Tho most parents are failures anyway. Some are just much bigger failures.
Yes if global education was a lot more rigorous perhaps a lot more people would be a lot more useful.
Though too many people would still be a waste of resources.
I'm guessing that the intervention of a real AI will slowly modify Earth systems.
Parents focus more on procreation and less on parenting.
