Wild the only effect the humanities have had the last few decades is some bullshit from a meth addict
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Damn, I think I at this point i actually prefer the old religious "humans are special and different from other animals cuz god have us the consciousness" shit to this new techno-religion "biological sucks, destroy consciousness and bring on the machines" shit. At least there were some Christians and shit throughout history that really cared about animals (and some other religions have been better). This shit is just anti-life completely
Or here's another idea. If this is actually a real threat, how about we treat it like one? We can simply choose not to develop certain technologies; we've done it multiple times. We've had the tech for human cloning for decades, but we decided it was unethical and to simply not pursue the technology. We could do the same for AI beyond a certain level of complexity.
Hell, if this really is a threat to the human race, I would fully support just outlawing computers entirely if that's what it took. Fuck it, we'll just go back to pen and paper. It would be an extreme step, but if that's what it takes, so be it. We can go full Dune, "thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind."
At the very least we ought to ban wasting more than a some number of GWh/year on training the same model as last year but with 100x parameters