The speaker says that historically, many major conquests were carried out by internally divided groups rather than unified monoliths.

“you know any group of humans even if they're all like exact same race and gender is like going to be much more diverse than the army of ais on the data center because they'll be mostly like literal copies of each other you know and i think that goes for a lot another thing i was going to mention is that like and our scenario doesn't really explore this i think in our scenario they're more of like a monolith but um historically a lot of crazy conquests happened”

“from groups that were not at all monoliths.”