Even aside from what the article speaks of, Slate Star Codex made a good point. Homo sapiens outcompeted several other species of the Homo genus becauuse of su

Even aside from what the article speaks of, Slate Star Codex made a good point. Homo sapiens outcompeted several other species of the Homo genus becauuse of superior intelligence. So yes, we have seen this scenario before, and the only reason we have seen it is because we were the winners - the losers went extinct. Oopsie-doopsie. Personally I think it would have been nobler/more fulfilling to "evolve beyond evolution" rather than construct our own obsolescence, but whatever, capitalism and competition and extinction in spades works too. At least the writers at Time can sleep easy knowing global civilization has like, a few decades at most, regardless of AI.