At the dawn of RSI, dan faggella reflects on nostalgia and humanity's fading everyday life
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-10
AI researcher dan faggella writes that at the dawn of recursive self-improvement (RSI), he's roughly 10x more susceptible to nostalgia. Simple rituals like looking out a window at night — part of human life for thousands of years — will soon be gone.
If any path to persisting exists, he argues, it lies in a wholly new ecosystem of mostly non-biological minds, where surviving requires radical transformation. He hopes humans can still nudge the trajectory: (a) get as good a shake as possible for humans, and (b) ensure the non-biological minds soon running the world carry forward open-ended evolution and rich sentient experience.
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