I believe the following summarizes the article's main theme.
> AIs are not alien; they were conceived and built by humans and trained on the collected work output of humans, so AIs are more human than human; they are humanity concentrated and compressed.
> Soon we will start feeding the resulting concoction into every individual intravenously... giving all of us the power of the whole.
>Any civilization that lasts long enough would create this same technology, it’s just too obvious and too effective, and we now know it’s achievable.
The last 1/3 is really about existential risk of any kind, beyond AI. And it says our relatively small Minimum Viable Population (~500) might allow us to bounce back from even really bad disasters, like nuclear war or an extremely deadly pandemic.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 9.7 ms ] thread> AIs are not alien; they were conceived and built by humans and trained on the collected work output of humans, so AIs are more human than human; they are humanity concentrated and compressed.
> Soon we will start feeding the resulting concoction into every individual intravenously... giving all of us the power of the whole.
>Any civilization that lasts long enough would create this same technology, it’s just too obvious and too effective, and we now know it’s achievable.