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The present AGI alignment dialogue rests on a handful of shaky premises: Premises 1-2 assume that all is not in flux already. Premises 3-5 assume a completely anthropocentric worldview, where…
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At some point, AGI or non-biological intelligence will be accomplishing most of what there is to be done in the universe, and humanity won’t be contributing meaningfully to almost anything…
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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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This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Dr. Michael Levin, a pioneering developmental biologist at Tufts University, and possibly the most important thinker now living…
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Nothing I’ve ever said is remotely unique. My entire Cause, my entire reason for being around discerning and moving towards a Worthy Successor (and the expansion of Potentia), my entire…
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Three short quotes from Emerson: The Virtue of a Pipe We impute deep-laid, far-sighted plans to Caesar and Napoleon; but the best of their power was in nature, not in…
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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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There are people who imagine a future in the year 4000 which is nearly identical to 2025 but with robot butlers, travel to These people believe, understandably, that humans do…
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The sixth and final episode of our series AGI Governance on The Trajectory is with Eliezer Yudkowsky, famed AI safety thinker and Co-founder at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Eliezer…