the small kinds of problems that we want to solve in this little biosphere by the way when you say small you're talking about things that fall within the constraints of our computational systems thinking they can seem quite large to us mere humans right that's right yeah so they seem large and even unsolvable in a practical sense today but they are still small compared to almost all problems because almost all problems are large problems which are much larger than any constant do you find it useful as a person who is dreamed of creating a