"All roads lead to the end of man": a grim AGI endgame thread
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-26
- danfaggella argues in a long thread that "no roads lead to happy hominids continuing as before, with better tech" — all paths ahead lead to the end of man / human civilization.
- He rebuts common optimistic takes one by one (AI is overhyped, new jobs will appear, we'll adapt, we'll control ASI swarms, alignment will work, Neuralink merger makes us ASI) — all "cope".
- The only thing we can do, he says, is define the direction we build AGI in — ensuring it carries consciousness and life's self-overcoming process (as humanity is beyond algae of 3B years ago) — and the direction we become, via a possible short-lived merger/symbiosis period.
- Scary, he admits, but not cause for resignation: the fight is over who defines the build direction.
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