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)…

People who fear AGI destroying humanity often fear that AGI will not share human values. People who advocate for AGI soon often believe that AGI will naturally share human values….

Any honest AGI thinkers are frank about the fact that we can’t possibly predict all of the actions or ideas from a posthuman intelligence vastly beyond ourselves. While it seems…

You’ve probably heard of: Well, how about: Taking i-Risk seriously implies planning for a future where: Taking i-Risk seriously implies understanding that i-Risk is an X-Risk. In this article I’ll…

This post is not intended as an article, but as an opportunity to define a term I often refer to in talks and essays. For more context on these essays,…

Ask a group of 7-year-olds “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and you might get a variety of answers that fall into the following categories: Given…

The 5 Stages of Grief Model isn’t perfect – but it also seems to overlap well with the experiences of grieving people. The psychological model itself needn’t be perfect –…

I don’t take my ideas all that seriously. Or yours, frankly, though I hope to learn from them. You and I both are morons and neurons. Morons: We each individually…

If you must kill me, reader, do it without malice or distain. I’m just a man hurled into a world without any inherent meaning, born to die – like you….