[johndunne]

That’s kind of misanthropic, talking in absolute terms. I could agree in terms of low possibilities but certainly not absolutes. I feel it does a disservice to the few who actually come up with genius solutions to problems humanity faces and the many who dedicate their lives to solving them too.

[ffsm8]

Is it, really? With current progress I don't see humanity surviving even another 500 yrs, honestly. The main intelligent race at that point is likely going to be something like a symbiont/cyborg that's part machine. At least nothing it'd consider human.

Millions of years is a long period of time. Humanity has only existed for roughly 200-300k. That's less then 1% of the projected time period here.