Consolation Cosmism: Why Post-AGI Human Guarantees Are Self-Deception
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-06
AI thinker Daniel Faggella coins "Consolation Cosmism": post-AGI visions that relinquish anthropocentrism only as far as necessary while clinging to self-soothing claims of permanent human guarantees. He frames it as a ladder of gradual retreats — we'll stay sovereign? No. Equal partners? No. They'll care for us? They'll protect us? — each rung abandoned as the last becomes untenable. Critiquing the coming wave of post-AGI cosmic visions (including statements by Emad), he argues most will be apologetics bargaining for human-centered stasis rather than honest thinking. For humanity to persist, he contends, it must radically transform — not negotiate to be coddled by future intelligences forever.
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