Meme: how did other species fare after encountering a 'superintelligence'?
Puzzleheaded-King584 · reddit · 2026-10-12
A viral meme asks how encountering a 'superintelligence' went for other species: 'not bad' for dogs and cats if you ignore millennia of abuse and strays, and 'about as badly as you could possibly imagine' for mammoths, dodos, whales, gorillas and more—a dark allegory for AI alignment.
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