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The speaker asserts that throughout human history, encounters between more and less advanced civilizations have resulted in the less advanced civilization going extinct.
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“AI doom. Uh, in all of human history, when a more advanced civilization comes along and meets a less advanced civilization, the less advanced civilization goes extinct.”3:10Report a misattribution
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