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What does it mean to “care” about something? In order to care about the future, it’ll help for us to open by discussing an event from the recent past. How…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…