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'cause humans beat apes

and if you plunked down 20,000 humans onto a world with 10 billion apes, humans would beat apes

call it a slippery slope if you want, the fallacy is when you take it too far, not inherently any time you extrapolate anything whatsoever

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Except all of these arguments rely upon AI causing human extinction. Humans haven't driven other apes to extinction. They occupy the same ecological niches they did before, just usually in slightly smaller jungles as our cities and farms have encroached on some of it.

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