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This is a 2026 public EA Forum post (originally written in 2023) by Elias Schmied proposing that human agency and planning are socially learned behaviors rather than emergent products of general algorithms a reconceptualization that could lower p(doom) by suggesting sophisticated reasoning must be explicitly trained rather than emerging inaccessibly during optimization. The author acknowledges significant personal aversion to the work and describes the writing as "not fully up to my current standard," yet claims the core idea remains valuable. No organizational entity, founding team, funding request, or verifiable research program is presented this is a personal theory blog post from an individual contributor with no evidence of an early-stage organization, let alone one founded within three years by credentialed AI-lab alumni or senior operators.