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The Ambition Singularity - Controlling AGI as the Only Power Game Worth Playing - Dan Faggella

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At some point in the 21st century, over 90% of the most ambitious persons on Earth will be working directly or indirectly to either create or control AGI/post-human intelligence. (I’ve referred to this in jest as The Final Flex, the ultimate aim for status and power.) There was a time when the channels for achieving status or power were few. One could be a poet, maybe a blacksmith, maybe a warrior – and a few maybe could strive to be king. Today, fortunately, the pathways are vastly more nuanced and varied. One can become an opera singer, a skateboarder, a Twitter intellectual, an astronaut. Even those who strive for power and influence alone can do so ways other than war and conquest. Today’s powerful persons come in the form of politicians, media moguls, and businesspeople – and philanthropy can become its own kind of status competition between the powerful. We should be grateful that Musk and Gates could build companies or compete philanthropically. If only past generations had such

By Dan February 5, 2022 February 10, 2026 February 10, 2026 The hypothesis of the Ambition Singularity: At some point in the 21st century, over 90% of the most ambitious persons on Earth will be working directly or indirectly to either create or control AGI/post-human intelligence. (I’ve referred to this in jest as The Final Flex , the ultimate aim for status and power.) There was a time when the channels for achieving status or power were few. One could be a poet, maybe a blacksmith, maybe a warrior, and a few, maybe, could strive to be king. Today, fortunately, the pathways are vastly

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