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…

The present AGI alignment dialogue rests on a handful of shaky premises: Premises 1-2 assume that all is not in flux already. Premises 3-5 assume a completely anthropocentric worldview, where…

At some point, AGI or non-biological intelligence will be accomplishing most of what there is to be done in the universe, and humanity won’t be contributing meaningfully to almost anything…

Nothing I’ve ever said is remotely unique. My entire Cause, my entire reason for being around discerning and moving towards a Worthy Successor (and the expansion of Potentia), my entire…

In many essays, I tout the moral mandate for humanity to construct a vastly posthuman intelligence (a worthy successor) that might expand its powers (potentia) and maintain life (the flame)…