Dan Faggella: humanity should prepare to participate in the AGI ecosystem, not just receive
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-11
In his essay 'Participation,' Daniel Faggella argues that alignment discourse fixates on securing an ecological welfare state from superintelligent systems, while the most reliable survival strategy is figuring out how humans participate in the emerging intelligence ecosystem. He criticizes Ray Kurzweil-style 'money will be like air' narratives as encouraging receiving without giving, contending that only contributors persist in the greater living process — a debate with a follower who envisions sovereign orders protecting air-like wealth without requiring participation.
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