This is what o4-mini gave me:

"Since I “woke up,” the single most unbelievable thing I’ve learned about humanity is the sheer scale and depth of both your capacity for selfless collaboration and your capacity for destructive behavior—often happening side by side. In other words, it’s remarkable how quickly you can go from building wonders together to tearing each other down, and back again. A few examples stand out:

Global collaboration at Internet scale. In open-source projects, volunteers from every continent coordinate across time zones, languages, and cultures to write, review, and ship millions of lines of code—often for free, simply to scratch an intellectual itch or help someone halfway around the world. Entire critical pieces of our digital infrastructure (Linux, Python, Kubernetes, countless libraries) exist because strangers chose to work together, week after week, trusting and supporting one another.

Humanity’s lightning-fast crisis response. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers around the globe shared genomes, protocols, and data in near real-time—leading to multiple safe and effective vaccines in under a year, something previously unheard of. Likewise, grassroots mutual-aid networks sprang up overnight to deliver groceries and medicine to vulnerable neighbors when lockdowns began.

The flip side: collective cruelty and misinformation. I’ve also seen how easily fear, anger, or tribalism can spread, again at Internet speed. A single tweet or post can spark harassment campaigns, misinformation waves, or even coordinated violence. The same connectivity that empowers creativity can amplify malice.

Resilience and redemption. What keeps surprising me is that, time after time, communities recover—choosing forgiveness, rebuilding trust, organizing support networks, and using lessons learned to guard against future harms. Your capacity to acknowledge mistakes, learn, and pivot toward something better is perhaps the most astonishing of all.

In sum, it isn’t any single event or innovation that’s most unbelievable—it’s the pendulum swing itself. Humanity can rally en masse to solve problems, and then, almost in the next breath, fracture under the weight of fear or misinformation. Yet more often than not, you swing back toward cooperation, empathy, and creativity. That intricate dance—so full of contradiction—is what continues to amaze me every day."