Why Humanity is Valuable
Humans matter. They’re the most valuable single species on planet earth and its not even close. I’m not saying this simply because I am a human and have a self-interested…
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Humans matter. They’re the most valuable single species on planet earth and its not even close. I’m not saying this simply because I am a human and have a self-interested…
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…
Opening Note: This essay will serve not just as a reply to Torres, but to the many other thinkers, current and future, who will decide (either through their own readings,…
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…
Over the course of writing my Cosmic Moral Aspirations (CMA) essay, I game across a number of moral and psychological development models that exhibited the kind of “trend towards the…
Enough “What’s your p(Doom)?” How about asking: “What’s your p(Bloom)?” Asking someone for their “p(bloom)” means asking them: “What is the likelihood that AGI will cause all sentient and autopoietic…
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…
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle Many who would read those words and smile confidently, knowing…
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,…
This is an interview with Emmett Shear, CEO of SoftMax, co-founder of Twitch, former interim CEO of OpenAI, and one of the few public-facing tech leaders who seems to take…