Would ASI recruit ants before building robots? A very serious silly debate
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-23
Levi Turk argues ants and termites already build huge structures and breed faster than robots can be built, so ASI might co-opt them before apes. Dan Faggella pushes back with four pointed questions: which ant species, their eternal wellbeing, what happens to useless ants, and why assume no better construction method ever emerges.
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