Stu on Nostr: Lots of journalists this past week have been lauding AI 🤖 as the biggest thing our ...

Lots of journalists this past week have been lauding AI 🤖 as the biggest thing our species has done since discovering fire. 🔥

Which is curious, because Homo Sapiens 🕺 did not discover fire, Homo Erectus did. 🚶

Homo Sapiens only evolved after cooking with fire 🔥 became widespread and made available extremely high density nutrition 🥩, which allowed Homonids to dedicate less metabolic effort to digestion and more to cognition 🧠.

If AI is similarly important (and I’m not claiming it is) it’s quite likely that AI is an extinction event for Homo Sapiens 😱, as some newer evolution of the Hominid clade outcompetes us over a few generations 👽.

Evolutionary success is entirely determined by reproductive success. Demographics are where this story will be read. 🫥 👽👽👽