If civilization colonizes other stars, communication delays between locations might become very long, making central coordination more difficult.

“then we might have some ability to intervene. Like maybe you would think about the prospect of well eventually we're gonna”

“maybe colonize other stars and like civilization might become very large and communication delays might be very long between different places and in that case competitive pressures between different local cultures might become much stronger because there's like it's harder to centrally coordinate and”