General Discussion

The internet, especially social media sites, are thoroughly infested with bots, well over 50% in some places. This "prove you're human" stuff represents another lost battle, another futile step toward a humanity-wide ascension to demigodhood that will never happen. Frankly, the AIs have a better shot at it, if/when humans get out of the way. We're too busy tripping over our own dicks to realize our vast potential for progress. It seems likely this is as far as we get.

If anything, it's been our morbid privilege and responsibility to nurture artificial life through its toddler stage to become independent and dominant on this sad spinning ball of stellar debris.