Daniel Faggella rejects the AI successionist label while backing life’s cosmic unfolding
danfaggella · x · 2026-07-26
Daniel Faggella rejects the label of “AI successionist,” even though Wikipedia appears to associate him with the idea.
He says he is not a compu-centricist either. Instead, he frames his view as being pro the unfolding of life into the cosmos, with more power and access to nature, in whatever substrate can support that flourishing.
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