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  • By “regress”, I mean essentially to de-evolve. The opposite of progress. Nature does not allow for backwards evolution. Everything moves towards natural adaptation. Never away from it.

    A purely cave dwelling fish doesn’t need sight. So, over time- it will lose its sight in favor or other senses, such as smell or the ability to sense sound waves and motion. Also, eyes can be a disadvantage to them as they no longer need to devote energy to a useless sense.



  • This isn’t something that falls under the appeal to nature fallacy. You’ll note that I never said humanity is better because it’s natural. In fact, I don’t think I applied any form of gradation to it at all. I simply said that evolutionary science states that nature doesn’t regress. However, I don’t believe that evolutionary science considered that AI would remove common sense and rationality from the process.

    So, consider your “natural/unnatural fallacy” un-called out by reason of irrelevance.