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Is reductio ad absurdum the only argument pro AI crowd can come up with?

Like, why not stick to those products of civilization that don't actively try to replace humans who just so happen to comprise this very civilization?

I saw the GP as a snarky riposte against the doomerism of the anti-AI crowd.

Technology has been augmenting or replacing human work for as long as the first slab of rock was shoved up an inclined plane (wedge) and popped into its spot in the Great Pyramid.

The trees, man, the trees. We never should have left the trees.

It seems that humanity would have went on a lot longer if we never left the caves, so you might have a point there.