tszzl rebuts "future intelligences will love humans" with the megafauna extinction analogy
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-09
Prominent AI figure tszzl mocked the optimistic argument that "humans love animals now that we have big brains, so smarter future intelligences will love humans."
His counterexample is bleak: Pleistocene megafauna biomass was spread across roughly 150 genera of large mammals; today there is one — us — plus our cows and a vanishing tail of everything else. The implication: when a superior intelligence arrives, other species' fate is marginalization, not affection. Dan Faggella reposted with a "lol".
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