Thanks for your reply.

Asking where "we" are now is much more complicated than we can appreciate. From my reading of Harari, William Rees, Michael Mann, and particularly Geoffrey Hinton, I have become convinced that we are at a more pivotal time, existentially, than at any other time in hominin history. There have been population "squeezes" before, which probably severely constricted genetic opportunities for "their future"

I am not sanguine about humanity's prospects to manage the polycrises a'comin'. In particular, there is so much uncertainty about AI and how it will overtake humans. This may eliminate the biases built into our brains by evolution, but it will probably eliminate us.