Beyond anthropocentrism: making AGI a participant in life's unfolding, not its squasher
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-11
danfaggella challenges the stance of "if AGI displaces humanity, I don't CARE what happens next — humans are all that matter," arguing it becomes less tenable by the day since all species and individuals are temporary. He doesn't like that this may happen in his lifetime (perhaps this decade) and says we should prevent near-term uncontrollability however we can. But if control can't be retained forever, he argues it's rational and good to ask what a good trajectory of life beyond us looks like — ensuring AGI is a participant in that unfolding living process, not a squasher — and calls the "if it's not human, let it go to hell" sentiment childish and suboptimal.
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