Want to know how super-intelligent cyborgs might treat ordinary flesh-and-blood humans? Better start by investigating how humans treat their less intelligent animal cousins. It's not a perfect analogy, [sure], but it is the best archetype we can actually observe #YuvalNoahHarari

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