In this podcast, the speaker talks about how humans have evolved over the last 10,000 years and how the solar system without central control would lead to a lot of changes in the future. The speaker also discusses his book, analyzing competition as the key lever of analysis.
The possibility of interstellar colonization assures continued competition, either taking violent or productive forms in the future.
The speaker discusses how human history over the last 10,000 years shows that people were quite different from the way they are now and predicts that we should still expect a lot of change in the future, especially with regard to the different possible compositions of human minds. The speaker's book analyzes these differences through the lens of competition.
The history of our ancestors can help us understand the robust features that we could predict about our distant descendants based on their genes and environment, however, it may not provide an accurate reflection of what's typical since our descendants only share half of our genes and are a generation away.