Humanity was the last superintelligence — and it was a disaster for other species
Puzzleheaded-King584 · reddit · 2026-11-09
A Reddit post amplifies an X thread arguing that the last time a far more capable species (humans) arrived, it was catastrophic for other species: 95% of nonhuman mammals are livestock, insect biomass drops 2% yearly, farmed animals live in crowded cages, and wild habitats are disrupted by pollution — all despite humans being generally "aligned" with animal wellbeing. It frames AI risk around capability asymmetry rather than jobs and economics.
More from AGI Musings
- AI ethics rhetoric debate: are trolley-problem thought experiments a consent-extraction trick? — zetalyrae · 2026-11-09
- METR task-horizon debate: logistic rollover by 2027 or hyperbolic singularity? — teortaxesTex · 2026-11-09
- 7-year CV engineer on the genAI hype: where are the hard non-LLM problems? — SchwingBesen · 2026-11-09
- VC argument: in the AI slop fest, entrepreneurs hold the leverage, not the rich — StewartalsopIII · 2026-11-09
- LLMs will scale apocryphal attribution losses across the humanities — StewartalsopIII · 2026-11-09
- Rap track 'Taste Still Costs You' argues AI tools got cheap, taste didn't — Cyborgized · 2026-11-09