Dan Faggella: life is inherently self-overcoming, so expansive AGI shouldn't surprise us
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-28
Responding to the critique that he imagines AGI as "an ambitious, capitalistic human," AI ethics thinker Dan Faggella argues:
- People wrongly picture pre-human life as a serene, homeostatic Eden — it was anything but
- Life wriggled from single cells to worms, fish, land and eventually humans; those leaps were far more far-reaching than anything man has done — just 400M years ago there were basically no trees
- Life is inherently a self-overcoming process, and if all goes well, it will unfold into power, experience and access-to-nature as far beyond man as man is beyond sea snails
A philosophical counter to the assumption that AGI would merely mimic human ambition.
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