I am sure that we are not going to be the last universally intelligent species on earth, but what shocks me is that we are apparently the first.
Given the improbability of FTL travel and the inhospitability of Mars and Venus, it appears less likely that such gods came from from other planets than all the alternatives. There is also the motivational problem: rational aliens won't want to help us (Dark Forest Hypothesis).
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As soon as we discover a newly habitable planet in the future, we will look for creatures most similar to us and genetically interfere either by natural breeding or genetic modification to boost their evolution and help us colonize the planet. We too will make this mistake.
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So your (improbable but not infinitely impossible) hypothesis is that space aliens bred chimps into the precursor of homo sapiens because they wanted to have lots of Starbucks before they take over?
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