Sure, but the universe is also a place where it rains on your head, and then the sun burns your skin off, and wolves casually stroll in and eat your children. That's what the universe does when left to its own devices, and we don't like that, and we change it.

"It is the way it is because it's natural" is a pretty naive fallacy.

> and we don't like that, and we change it.

And the ones who do the work to change it reap the biggest rewards that come from those changes.

You're reading my statement as saying that this is preferable when in fact I'm staying that it's improbable to expect we could do otherwise.

Unless you want to go down the AGI/transhumanism path with me, which I doubt you do.

Is it "improbable" that we build houses and dams to try and correct traits of the universe that we deem undesirable?

Stop typing and look around you. You live in a huge improbability already.

Ok sure, it could be rephrased as

  we systematically fail to develop the full human capacity of millions of people

and make the same point.

The financial system is not a manifestation of physics. We created it and continue to rely on the belief in it. So to say we do nothing is nonsense.

We conjure these things and peddle them to the masses as the "one true path" for human development and expansion, which is BS.

Hmm, I'm a physicist, and in fact the natural tendency is the opposite, it is towards equilibrium due to the second law of thermodynamics.

That is, unless there is a source or sink in the vector field. Then one has to ask why it's there.

The universe is a physical dynamic system, we humans overlay our own social dynamic system which inescapably lives within physical bounds. But that overlay may or may not accomplish things that we desire from a human perspective by the laying of those additional social constraints. We should always question the bounds our own social system because it really is the most arbitrary set of rules that we've laid upon ourselves.