How did other species fare meeting 'superintelligence'? A viral answer
Puzzleheaded-King584 · reddit · 2026-10-13
- Viral X post (@InVitroFuture, 87K views) shared to Reddit: how did other species fare encountering "superintelligence" (humans)?
- Answer: cats and dogs did "not bad — ignoring millennia of torture for sport and most still being miserable strays"; for the long emoji list of wildlife, "about as badly as you could possibly imagine."
- The classic alignment argument about intelligence gaps, told from the animals' perspective.
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