Thinker argues economy is cognition-extended nature, and AGI will operate on alien coordination strata
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-07
AI thinker Dan Faggella offers a macro framing: the economy is nature extended through human cognition—a higher-order system for allocating energy and information.
He pushes two provocative questions:
- If the economy is just one higher-order system, why assume no others could exist?
- Could AGI operate at strata of coordination and cooperation as alien to humans as the economy is to worms?
The takeaway: today's human-scale economic structures shouldn't be treated as the endpoint—superintelligence may organize at levels far beyond human comprehension.
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