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![Kristian Rönn – A Blissful Successor Beyond Darwinian Life [Worthy Successor, Episode 9]](https://danfaggella.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Trajectory-YouTube-Worthy-Successor-Kristian-Ronn-banner-desktop-3x1-min.jpg)
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This is an interview with Kristian Rönn, author, startup founder, and now CEO of Lucid, and AI hardware governance startup based in San Francisco. In this episode Kristian explores his…
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In expressing my notion of the Worthy Successor, or any kind of idea about entities with more potentia and moral value that present-day humans, people sometimes suspect that Worthy Successor…
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Since the publication of the Worthy Successor essay in 2023 I’ve been glad to see the enthusiasm around exploring posthuman futures from people in tech and policy (especially on Twitter,…
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As the AGI race intensifies, it brings to bear more questions about what humanity’s role is in the future of life and intelligence. People ask: “How can we stay alive?”…
![Jack Shanahan – Avoiding an AI Race While Keeping America Strong [US-China AGI Relations, Episode 1]](https://danfaggella.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Trajectory-YouTube-US-China-AGI-Relations-Jack-Shanahan-desktop-3x1@2x-min-scaled.jpg)
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This is an interview with Jack Shanahan, a three-star General and former Director of the Joint AI Center (JAIC) within the US Department of Defense. Surely, a defense leader like…
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Over the past 13 years I developed a specific set of moral beliefs that felt like a kluge of what I was reading (Emerson, Bostrom, Al-Rodhan, others). For a full…
![Richard Ngo – A State-Space of Positive Posthuman Futures [Worthy Successor, Episode 8]](https://danfaggella.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Trajectory-YouTube-Worthy-Successor-Richard-Ngo-banner-desktop-3x1@2x-min-scaled.jpg)
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This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with the brilliant Richard Ngo, an AGI researcher who recently worked for years imagining positive AGI futures for OpenAI…
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When I discuss potential posthuman trajectories, and the need to eventually let go of the hominid form and allow potentia to bloom, people will often ask: “Why talk about posthuman…
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AGI risk seems lower than it is because the people who know that AGI risk exists are almost all incentivized against talking about it openly. Broadly, there are two groups…
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We can basically map business survival logic to civilizational survival logic, and in this article I’ll argue that we should. In both the case of stewarding financial resources and moral…
