The speaker doubts that a hypothetical, more successful Mongol Empire imposing widespread authoritarianism and slavery would have caused slavery to remain much more enduring a thousand years later.

“have or like which like those kinds or fashion maybe to some extent though not entirely like those things are more path dependent but then there are things that are not as path dependent so for example if some empire like if the mongols had been more successful and like they somehow i don't know how realistic it is but like they became like very authoritarian and had slavery everywhere would that have actually led to”

“of slavery being a much more enduring institution a thousand years later that seems not true to me like the forces that led to the end of slavery seemed like they were not like they were not contingent forces they seemed like deeper forces than that and if you're saying well if we like if we aligned as today to some bad set of values then that could affect the future in some ways which are more fragile that”