Beyond p(Doom): Dan Faggella proposes a 'cosmic' p(Bloom) framing for AGI
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-13
In his newsletter piece "What's Your p(Bloom)?", Daniel Faggella argues today's AGI discourse is dominated by anthropocentric concerns—asking only the likelihood AGI ends humanity—while inordinately focused on mitigating downsides rather than maximizing upsides.
A true, cosmic p(Doom), he says, would ask whether AGI squashes all sentient and autopoietic life; correspondingly, p(Bloom) asks the likelihood AGI causes all sentient life to flourish and expand massively. The great concern for living things shouldn't be any one species' supremacy but the continued blooming of the life process itself—even if human utility and power are drastically diminished by beings beyond us, with hybrid intelligences as a possible transitional stage.
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