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by flangola7 1184 days ago
>I like to think we (and our organic matter relatives) are hard to kill. Or at least to completely eradicate... so we will be around, or some proxy for us.

What is your hard evidence or reasoning for this? As I see it humans are quite vulnerable and will be as trivial to inadvertently eradicate as the dodo bird.
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extasia 1184 days ago
Humans are much more resilient than dodo birds. Dodos were pretty devolved due to their insulated habitat[0].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism

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Atreiden 1184 days ago
I think that's his point. Currently, we have no natural predators. We completely outclass every other species on Earth in intelligence, and it's easy to see how advantageous that trait has been.

What happens when we're no longer the Apex Intelligence?

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airstrike 1183 days ago
Which is why I expanded the notion of survival to include other organic matter relatives, as they may fare better than we will. Simply put, organic life is unlikely to disappear entirely, which in time (eons, really), could result in sentient organic life emerging again once the machines go their own way or some such

It's also a reason for us to colonize space as fast as possible ;-) it's easier to run away in 3D

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