The speaker argues that values a thousand years in the future will depend more on the technological, economic, and social environment of that time than on actions taken by people today.

“i agree it was not descendant but like the in fact this sort of point i'm trying to make is that values that exist at a given time like what the values of uh we will have in 300 years or like from the perspective of someone a thousand years ago what values people are going to have in a thousand years those questions are much more determined by the uh”

“by the technological and economic and social environment that's going to be there in a thousand years which values are going to be functional which uh sites which which values end up being more competitive and uh being more influential so that other people like adopt their values”

“and it depends much less on the individual actions taken by people in a thousand years ago so i would say that”