The speaker believes society has been recursively self-improving and undergoing an intelligence explosion for a long time.

“So I kind of feel like we've been recursively self-improving.”

“exploding for a long time maybe another way to see it is um i mean earth was a pretty i mean if you don't look at the biomechanics and so on it was a pretty boring place i think and looked very similar if you just look from space and earth is spinning and then like we're in the middle of this like firecracker event but we're seeing it in slow motion but i definitely feel like”

“This has already happened for a very long time. And again,”