The speaker suggests that people in historically privileged settings, such as aristocratic societies or ancient Greece, often spent substantial time developing physically or cognitively.

“And actually also maybe there's some evidence of that historically, because if you look at, for example, aristocrats or you look at maybe ancient Greece or something like that,”

“whenever you had little pocket environments that were post-AGI in”

“certain sense,”

“I do feel like people have spent a lot of their time flourishing in a certain way, either physically or cognitively. And so I think I feel OK about the prospects of that.”