Will Robots Inherit the Earth?

Someone on Reddit posted a question I felt compelled to answer.
They wrote: “Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.”

I responded - not directly to the question, but to something deeper. To the nature of time and space.

People are so afraid of the future - of an "AI apocalypse," climate collapse or ecological crisis. But to my mind, such fear is irrational. Not because these things don’t matter, but because of the way I see time itself.

Here’s what I replied:

All of these theories about the future assume that the future hasn’t already happened - and that it doesn’t influence the present and the past.

Look. See. All time, and all space, exists right here and now. Once you grasp this - truly grasp this - fear of the future vanishes.

It becomes as irrational as fear of the now.
Or fear of the past.

Can you imagine being afraid of the past?

Time, for all its appearances, is not linear.
Nor is space truly spacious.

This view doesn’t necessarily change the events within time, or make our choices meaningless. But it radically reframes our fear of an uncertain, “approaching” future.

The whole tapestry already exists.
And we're it.
What it was, what it is, and what it will be.
We are all of it.

Those robot children? Who's to say you're not it?

The AI we think we’re building could just as easily be building us.

We are here. All is well. Our existence "now" confirms the existence and integrity of the entire tapestry.