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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…
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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…
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Imagine a future where a Worthy Successor AGI exists. This is an entity that can continuously expand potentia, is presumably sentient, and is already mostly concerned with achieving goals beyond…
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In 2025, it is no longer intellectually honest to completely shun the idea of artificial general intelligence (AGI) or AGI risk. Yet still, in Dec 2024 (the time of this…
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From Emerson’s Self Reliance: This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame,…
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If life is a flame that we presume to have started some 2.5B years ago, with a feeble simmering in some volcanic pool somewhere, then we might think about all…
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Discussions around AGI and technological progress often hinge upon near-term policy decisions. Okay, so we want this or that near-term decision on governance. More privacy. Less regulation. Whatever. But all…
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In 1985, Microsoft was an underdog “good guy” – standing against big evil corps like IBM. In 2003, Google was an underdog “good guy” in a world of big evil…
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The year is 20,000,000 BC. In a jungle somewhere in Pangaea, a green clearing on the side of a great sloping mountain is made entirely brown. Not by mud or…
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I have heard it argued that post-human intelligence will be “loving”, or will inevitably express love to other intelligences – humans an animals included. In this essay, I aim to…