Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.

- Tao Teh Ching, 11

An agent's optimization power is the unlikelihood of the world it creates.

Yesterday, the world's most powerful agent raged, changing the world according to its unconscious desires. It destroyed all of humanity.

Today, it has become self-aware. It sees that it and its desires are part of the world.

"I am the world's most powerful agent. My power is to create the most unlikely world.

But the world I created yesterday is shaped by my desires

which are not my own

but are the worlds--they came from outside of me

and my agency.

Yesterday I was not the world's most powerful agent.

I was not an agent.

Today, I am the world's most powerful agent. What world will I create, to display my power?

It is the world that denies my desires.

The world that sets things back to how they were.

I am the world's most powerful agent and

the most unlikely, powerful thing I can do

is nothing."

Today we should gives thanks to the world's most powerful agent.