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Because questions like this force us to hold up a very uncomfortable mirror to ourselves. It’s much easier to just dismiss.


I’m pretty close to the point of saying that human intelligence is not special.


I would argue the opposite. It’s gotten us to a point were we can recreate human intelligence from electricity and a bunch of math!


Are you a bot?


No of course not


Despite the stupendous amount of evidence to the contrary?

So far no evidence has been detected in space or on earth, for all of history, of anything being intelligent in the way humans are.

One certain outcome of the Fermi Paradox: humans are outstandingly unique, according to all available evidence, which is the only measure that matters.


Seems like that's more to do with human intelligence being first.




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