We’ll define a paradigm myth as: A paradigm myth is a set of implicit, unexamined assumptions that coordinate behavior and create value within a given environment, but become maladaptive when…

There are times in the history of civilization where change is not an option, only how we change. The choice is between: We’ll discuss how this dynamic applies to humanity…

Humans matter. They’re the most valuable single species on planet earth, and it’s not even close. I’m not saying this simply because I’m human and have a self-interested motive 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,…

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…