[dist-epoch]

You assume there is the option of not pushing the extinction button. Nobody asked chimps if they wanted humans around. This processes are outside control.

[hollerith]

Humanity stopped germ-line human genetic engineering (possible since the early 1970s) and humanity can (and should) stop OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.

Datacenters that use literal gigawatts of electricity are not exactly easy to conceal from the authorities.

[vonneumannstan]

Until recently Claude wasn't building itself. A group of people with agency were.