I think my most unpopular opinion is that I’m broadly in favor of humans? Like, I do not think kangaroos or amoebae or AI would do a better job with the strange miracle of consciousness. I think we are doing about as well as we can do given the extremely strange situation in which we find ourselves.
Like, don’t get me wrong. We are a catastrophe. But we’re also so much else! We make music and art and movies, including movies from 1973 that do not exist. We are capable of such sacrifice and empathy. We pass on information that we have learned via writing and other technologies. We dream about our teeth falling out. We are so strange and terrifying and lovely.