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Reading that timeline was quite a trip. Humanity is really just a tiny blip in the grand scale of time. They don't talk much about AI and other synthetic repl

Reading that timeline was quite a trip. Humanity is really just a tiny blip in the grand scale of time. They don't talk much about AI and other synthetic replacements for humanity. Maybe it's just too difficult to extrapolate. One can guess, though, that long before another 10,000 years have passed, we will have developed artificial beings that are billions of times smarter than we are. By then, we probably will have augmented our minds and bodies to the point where we are vastly more intelligent and powerful as well, so perhaps we will survive in some form or other.

bilbo0s 8y ago
Or we will have unleashed highly lethal, self-replicating nanobots in the prosecution of a devastating global war, and the human race will be crawling along with a population at extinction levels. (Or maybe just a good old fashioned series of nuclear exchanges?) The future can be more brilliant than we could imagine, or darker than our worst fears can conjure. Likely, it will be somewhere in the middle.