During this part, she keeps trying to find an analogy for AI and how it will change the world and one she uses is the development of agriculture. They discuss this a bit. Destiny thinks people were nomadic hunter gatherer berry eaters until one guy was like woah i can grow a crop and stay in one place and then it was a huge revolution and everyone started farming. It sounds dumb because it’s like he doesn’t realize that farming developed in different areas and different groups and there were nomadic hunter gatherers living concurrent with people who farm ( and i think there are still some out there) because maybe that made more sense for the environment they were in. Farming enough to support a population also requires a lot of work, long term time investment, and certain environmental conditions. it’s not a magic power up that destroys nomadism. Just by creating trash piles humans would be able to begin cultivating plants accidentally if it the environment was hospitable to it.
It seems like a very black and white way of thinking where things always progress forward. Sorry for the sperg out.