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People often read about the worthy successor, or generally axiologically cosmic ideas, and ask: “Okay, Dan, but how to I actually DO something about this?” As it turns out there…
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Like it or not we humans share the fate of all forms (individuals, species, substrates): To transform or be destroyed. I suspect we have from 15 to 40 years before…
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Given a long enough time horizon, all things (individuals, species, forms) die out completely or transform into something else. Lucretius and the second law of thermodynamics concur here. In this…
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This is an interview with Joshua Clymer, a technical AI safety researcher at Redwood Research. Before that, he researched AI threat models and developed evaluations for self-improvement capabilities at METR….
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In business, blindly assuming you’ll be profitable is a recipe for bankruptcy. In the outdoors, blindly assuming you’ll find water and shelter is a recipe for death. And yet, many…
![Peter Singer – Optimizing the Future for Joy, and the Exploration of the Good [Worthy Successor, Episode 10]](https://danfaggella.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Trajectory-YouTube-Worthy-Successor-Peter-Singer-banner-desktop-3x1@2x-scaled.jpg)
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This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Peter Singer, one of the most influential moral philosophers of our time, and arguably the most influential philosopher…
![David Duvenaud – What are Humans Even Good For in Five Years? [Early Experience of AGI – Episode 1]](https://danfaggella.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Trajectory-YouTube-Early-Experience-of-AGI-David-Duvenaud-desktop-3x1@2x-min-scaled.jpg)
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This is the first episode in our new Early Experience of AGI series – where we explore the subtle signs of AGI’s rise long before its dominance is declared. This…
![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,…
