Pretty sure other species will branch off humans in due course, if we survive long enough.
In reality I don’t think new species emerge in a binary manner, it’s more likely that the probability of reproduction a parent and child species just falls towards 0% over some number of generations.
But it’s important context to remember that we didn’t invent/discover fire. Homo Erectus did.
We only evolved because fire was discovered and tamed by Homo Erectus. No fire, no Homo Sapiens.
Whilst using fire was advantageous for the Homo Erectus individuals… discovering fire was the worst thing to happen to Homo Erectus as a species.
Cooking with fire allowed Homo Sapiens to evolve with vastly reduced digestive metabolic demands and vastly increased cognitive metabolic demands.
If AI changes the value weighting of our metabolic system then something with more optimal weightings (for achieving reproduction) will evolve from humans.
I actually think this is quite likely now that I think it through like this. Do humanoids with AI really need such a large cognitive metabolic weighting? Probably not. Intelligence can now be centralised and immortalised and it’s likely that we are reduced to obedient agents and vehicles.
Intelligence is actually a headwind for reproductive success, so human intelligence is likely to fade quite quickly now that we can biologically disassociate from it.
Quite sad really.
Stu / ⚡️🌱🌙
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