“The human species, Homo sapiens, is a first mover. From an evolutionary perspective, our cousins, the chimpanzees, are only a hairbreadth away from us. Homo sapiens still wound up with all the technological marbles because we got there a little earlier.”
Optional extra:
“Evolutionary biologists are still trying to unravel which order the key thresholds came in, because the first-mover species was first to cross so many: Speech, technology, abstract thought… We’re still trying to reconstruct which dominos knocked over which other dominos. The upshot is that Homo sapiens is first mover beyond the shadow of a contender.”
“The human species, Homo sapiens, is a first mover. From an evolutionary perspective, our cousins, the chimpanzees, are only a hairbreadth away from us. Homo sapiens still wound up with all the technological marbles because we got there a little earlier.”
Optional extra:
“Evolutionary biologists are still trying to unravel which order the key thresholds came in, because the first-mover species was first to cross so many: Speech, technology, abstract thought… We’re still trying to reconstruct which dominos knocked over which other dominos. The upshot is that Homo sapiens is first mover beyond the shadow of a contender.”
EY, AI as a pos neg factor, 2006ish