> If AIs are all they’re cracked up to be by their most fervent believers, [our lives akin to a symbiotic eyelash mite's existence w/ humans, except we're the m

> If AIs are all they’re cracked up to be by their most fervent believers, [our lives akin to a symbiotic eyelash mite's existence w/ humans, except we're the mites] like a possible model for where humans might end up: not just subsisting, but thriving, on byproducts produced and discarded in microscopic quantities as part of the routine operations of infinitely smarter and more powerful AIs. I kind of feel like we're already in an "eyelash mite" kind of coexistence with most technologies, like electricity, the internet, and supply chains. We're already (kind of, as a whole) thriving compared to 400 years ago, and us as individuals are already powerless to change the whole (or even understand how everything really works down to a tee). I think technology and capitalism already did that to us; AI just accelerates all that