The Other Road

The transhuman future vs. the AGI future.

For us, humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down. — Hermann Hesse, Demian Despite having spent most of my life marinating in transhumanist ideas, I never cared about AI. Because I’m a classical transhumanist: I want to use technology to change myself, so that I can do more. Because I, personally, want to learn and think and act, and not have a machine learn and think and act on my behalf. And in this worldview, AI is not interesting, except as a stopgap technology to unlock the transhumanism tech tree faster…

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• Saul Munn

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