[diminish]

Controversially, agricultural societies late to industrialization, have more population now and are replacing early industrial societies due to lower birth rates in industrial workers.

So I doubt humans with AI will replace humans without.

[wiseowise]

Now compare quality of life between both.

[mantas]

Quality of life in a very narrow materialistic definition for an individual? Or overall and sustainable society quality of life?

[darkclouds]

> Controversially, agricultural societies late to industrialization, have more population now

If you pointed the above out 123 years ago, would the British Empire change your mind?

Population is just one metric of success.

>So I doubt humans with AI will replace humans without.

But they might out live them whilst the manmade chemicals that affect health, like (per|poly)fluoroalkyl (PFAS) that took decades for the law to recognise and legislate against, in much the same way understanding dialects of RegEx in conversation becomes more common place in every day conversation, in order to understand the evolving world we live in.

Has survival of the fittest evolved into survival of the intelligent?

[satvikpendem]

What does the population have to do with the parent's point?

[r00fus]

Population advantage translates into victory in simple Darwinian analysis.

Not that I particularly agree in this case but that’s what I learned in my human nature college course.