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> Humans have one ecological niche.

I'm confused, which niche is that?

It's a large niche because it was unexploited before us, but our niche is in the resources and strategies accessible to generalized intelligence.

Humans used to have other niches, when there were resources differentially accessible to persistence hunting, but that niche basically no longer exists.

East African savannah?

Maybe 60 000 years ago, now we're more survivable than ants or cockroaches. Anything short of a Venus hothouse is survivable (not for 9 billion of us, though).

I was being slightly sarcastic, but even 60,000 years ago other environments were available.

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