The speaker argues that entities able to survive and continue pursuing their rewards are more intelligent than entities that fail to do so.

“it feels like if you can continue to stay around to.”

“try to achieve your rewards you're clearly a bit more intelligent than the other entities that couldn't so that's number one number two is like it's a question how much we want to work on that very few people no one is really working on this right now um right and we may only”