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Alignment & Succession: Toward a Future Sculpted by Human Wills

Is opposing AI takeover speciesist? Which successors are good? What perspectives is the AI space missing that make it confused about these questions?

Sep 13 • Rudolf Laine

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Alignment & Succession: Morality Lives in the Human Individual

Human morality lives in us and requires the individual as an active chooser and valuer.

Sep 5 • Rudolf Laine

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June 2026

Alignment & Succession: The Two Bars of Alignment

Why much AI alignment discourse automatically treats the transition to powerful AI as a succession problem

Jun 24 • Rudolf Laine

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Alignment & Succession: The Ideology of Successionism

Should humanity continue? Many in AI are getting confused, but why?

Jun 22 • Rudolf Laine

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January 2026

The Technology of Liberalism

“In every technological revolution, we face a choice: build for freedom or watch as others build for control.”

Jan 5 • Rudolf Laine

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April 2025

The Intelligence Curse: an essay series

Solving human irrelevance in the face of AI

Apr 24, 2025 • Rudolf Laine

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The Use of Knowledge in (AGI) Society

How to build to break the intelligence curse

Published on Luke Drago • Apr 9, 2025

February 2025

A History of the Future, 2030-2040

A scenario, part 3.

Feb 17, 2025

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A History of the Future, 2027-2030

A scenario, part 2.

Feb 17, 2025 • Rudolf Laine

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A History of the Future, 2025-2027

A scenario, part 1.

Feb 17, 2025 • Rudolf Laine

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December 2024

Capital, AGI, and human ambition

AGI will shift the relative importance of human v non-human factors of production, reducing the incentive to care about humans while making existing…

Dec 28, 2024 • Rudolf Laine

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Review: Planecrash

Take a stereotypical fantasy novel, a textbook on mathematical logic, and Fifty Shades of Grey. Mix them all together and add extra weirdness for spice…

Dec 27, 2024 • Rudolf Laine

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