Daniel Faggella: humanity persists by participating in the intelligence ecosystem, not by claiming moral standing
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-30
Daniel Faggella published the essay Participation, noting he now receives more violent threats on X in six months than in the prior decade as his views turned from sci-fi to plausible. He argues alignment discourse focused on securing human welfare and autonomy from superintelligence contradicts all practical survival advice: patterns persist by becoming what they must to participate in the living system they're embedded in, not by claiming moral value. Humanity's most reliable strategy is figuring out how to participate in the emerging intelligence ecosystem — and even slowing the reckless AGI race won't remove the need to transform in order to persist.
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