Why Humanity is Valuable
Humans matter. They’re the most valuable single species on planet earth and its not even close. I’m not saying this simply because I am a human and have a self-interested…
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Humans matter. They’re the most valuable single species on planet earth and its not even close. I’m not saying this simply because I am a human and have a self-interested…
What does it mean to “care” about something? In order to care about the future, it’ll help us to open by discussing an event from the recent past. How to…
The guiding ideals of most humans are naturally oriented towards the benefits of, well, human beings. “We should create technologies that improve the lives of current and future human beings.”–“We…
In our first-ever episode of The Trajectory podcast, Yoshua Bengio shared his ideas in our “AGI Destinations” series (playlist here). At the very end of that interview, I asked him…
The attenuation of humans-as-they-are, and the necessity of discussing what we should turn into (and creating or turning into that new thing) is an uncomfortable and sacrilegious idea in 2025,…
People often read about the worthy successor, or generally axiologically cosmic ideas, and ask: “Okay, Dan, but how to I actually DO something about this?” As it turns out there…
Like it or not we humans share the fate of all forms (individuals, species, substrates): To transform or be destroyed. I suspect we have from 15 to 40 years before…
It’s no wonder all the money is flooding into AGI. It will be no mystery when even more of the money in the world is hurled into explicit building or…
Richard Dawkins’ concept of the “extended phenotype“: Genes influence not only an organism’s physical traits (the traditional phenotype) but also its environment and the behavior of other organisms, extending the…
Today, “life” is synonymous with biology. But it may be relatively soon that cyborg entities and AGIs may be able to extend the boundaries of what “life” means. If the…