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The Future of Humanity
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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.
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