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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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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…
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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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Assuming AGI is achievable (and many, many of its former detractors believe it is) – what should be its purpose? I argue that the great (and ultimately, only) moral aim…
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Defining the Term A utility-monster is Rober Nozak’s thought experiment about an entity who could be so happy as to outshine all possible happiness of all possible humans, and humans…
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The advancement of the sciences will, at some point in the decades of centuries ahead, lead humanity to a place where we can expand our cognition and sentience, and potentially…
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Superintelligence holds the promise of potentially unlocking the secrets of nature or truth, alleviating suffering on earth, or destroying us all. I have long argued that the emergence of post-human…
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The following are assumptions that most of us hold as iron truths: Happiness is only made possible because of its opposite: Pain. Without pain, there is no real happiness. If…