David Kipping

It's crazy the world they lived in.

Yeah.

When you certainly probably need a critical mass of humans, right?

You probably need enough that there are some humans who can just not do the farming, not be involved in hunting.

They can just sit on the side and just use their brains to think about problems.

It's probably really hard.

So the question is, if you reran the tape, if we could go back and rerun the Holocene over, is the emergence of...

the Neolithic Revolution, eventually even all the way to the Industrial Age, is that an inevitable thing that just always happens?

Or would there be other realities where we were just quite happy living as hunter-gatherers?

It's just nuts.

Which is a good motivation for doing simulation, right?

Because we would love to—you want to rewind the clock.

Oh, my God.

That would be—let's let the Egyptians take over.

Let's see what happens in that world, right?

I mean, that would be a fun—kind of the biggest tragedy I find of being alive now is—

is I want to know, I'm fascinated by our story as humans, and I want to know how it ends.

I want to know what is the future?

What does it look like in 1,000 years?

Are we still here?