Extinction

How about this week there was the former Anthropic employee who is now saying we have to be very concerned about AI.

I'm getting out because it's so scary and there could be an extinction event brought on by the AIs to the AIs for all of us.

Extinction was the word he used.

Yeah, that's pretty dramatic.

It's scary.

Earth-aloo-yah.

Extinction is real.

Extinction is here.

We better say I love you before we disappear.

Extinction number six.

One, two, three, four, five.

Do something to remember if someone does survive.

Oh, our hearts are beating Now I know why On the living earth there is no goodbye Extinction is real Extinction is here We better say I love you before we disappear.

this gave science the tools necessary to determine that fossils represented dead mammals and reptiles plants and all orders of taxa more critically though they were able to determine what fossils were not while they could fit into linnaeus's taxonomic scheme hardly any of them represented anything found alive today There appeared to be a whole world of diversity lost to time.

And it was from this observation that science seriously considered the concept of extinction for the first time to explain it.

Extinction shattered the long-held notion of the fixity of species, the idea that all species have always existed.

Linnaean taxonomy uncovered other curious patterns.

Linnaeus was a creationist, and like other scientists of his generation, he was motivated in part by uncovering the way in which God's creation was ordered.

And with this inscription, extinct is the name

of Christians.

Extinct is the name.

Imagine this.

He took on the ash heap of a bunch of burned Bibles and put extinct is the name of Christians.

And once those survivors inherited the planet, evolution started building from them.

Extinction was not only removing species, it was changing what counted as success.

The planet kept rewriting the rules, and every time it did, life had to answer a different question.

Extinction does not leave a line of species waiting for their turn.

The survivors are usually not the biggest, or the fastest, or even the smartest.

They are the organisms that already possess something the new environment suddenly rewards.

Behind transparent walls rested a single object, a beautifully crafted ceramic bowl decorated with delicate blue patterns.

Beside it appeared a brief description, Estimated Population at Extinction, 18.4 Billion.

Duration of civilization, 412,000 years.

Cause of extinction, internal ecological collapse.

It's just that the real elves all died out years ago.

People wanted them for Christmas so badly they were hunted to extinction.

extinction.My God, that's depressing.

Ah, I see what you mean.

So all we have to do to cure these whiny pants' depression is just to find some real elves, and failing that, breed them.

This layer-by-layer documentation shows that evolution is not sudden or magical, but gradual and continuous, driven by natural processes operating over vast timescales.

Extinction is a natural part of life's history.

The fossil record shows that extinction is common.

The vast majority of species that have ever existed are now extinct.

Some extinctions were gradual, as species were outcompeted or their environments changed slowly.

Others were sudden, swept away in mass extinctions caused by asteroids, volcanic eruptions, or climate catastrophes.

Extinction clears the stage for new life.

After each mass extinction, surviving species diversified to fill empty ecological roles.