Pedestal Cope – Assuming Human “Plot Armor”
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In business, blindly assuming you’ll be profitable is a recipe for bankruptcy. In the outdoors, blindly assuming you’ll find water and shelter is a recipe for death. And yet, many…
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with the brilliant Martin Rees – British cosmologist, astrophysicist, and one of the most philosophically courageous thinkers alive today….
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Peter Singer, one of the most influential moral philosophers of our time, and arguably the most influential philosopher…
This is the first episode in our new Early Experience of AGI series – where we explore the subtle signs of AGI’s rise long before its dominance is declared. This…
This is an interview with Kristian Rönn, author, startup founder, and now CEO of Lucid, and AI hardware governance startup based in San Francisco. In this episode Kristian explores his…
In expressing my notion of the Worthy Successor, or any kind of idea about entities with more potentia and moral value that present-day humans, people sometimes suspect that Worthy Successor…
Since the publication of the Worthy Successor essay in 2023 I’ve been glad to see the enthusiasm around exploring posthuman futures from people in tech and policy (especially on Twitter,…
As the AGI race intensifies, it brings to bear more questions about what humanity’s role is in the future of life and intelligence. People ask: “How can we stay alive?”…
This is an interview with Jack Shanahan, a three-star General and former Director of the Joint AI Center (JAIC) within the US Department of Defense. Surely, a defense leader like…
Over the past 13 years I developed a specific set of moral beliefs that felt like a kluge of what I was reading (Emerson, Bostrom, Al-Rodhan, others). For a full…