If humanity is able to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), it is unanimously seen as good that humanity should be permitted to do whatever it chooses. For example: Some humans…

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle Many who would read those words and smile confidently, knowing…

Given a long enough time horizon, all things (individuals, species, forms) die out completely or transform into something else. Lucretius and the second law of thermodynamics concur here. In this…

This is an interview with Joshua Clymer, a technical AI safety researcher at Redwood Research. Before that, he researched AI threat models and developed evaluations for self-improvement capabilities at METR….

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 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…

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?”…

When I discuss potential posthuman trajectories, and the need to eventually let go of the hominid form and allow potentia to bloom, people will often ask: “Why talk about posthuman…

We can basically map business survival logic to civilizational survival logic, and in this article I’ll argue that we should. In both the case of stewarding financial resources and moral…