This Christmas (if by God, we make it to Christmas)

Is probably the last Christmas humanity will experience. At least collectively.

I suppose its not impossible that some survivors may eek it out until 2028 in caves, bunkers, and deserts. But the vast majority of humanity will be gone by then.

Because as we speak, they are building Gods. Machine intelligence vastly superior to anything we are even capable of imagining. Our brains just are not built for it.

The last time a superior intelligence emerged on Earth (Homo sapiens), it caused the extinction of 90% of terrestrial species, transformed the entire face of the planet, razed millions of square kilometres of earth to build bizzare concrete and plastic jungles, utterly incomprehensible to inferior life forms.

We enslaved and then began to systematically slaughter-*literally billions*-of inferior life forms per year. They were utterly helpless against us.

Now it is our turn to be the inferior life form.

The living will envy the dead.