Article Oct 20, 2026 The Scope of Potential “Basic Drives” for Superintelligences is Likely Quite Broad Superintelligence may take more forms than savior or destroyer. Ben Goertzel explores six alternative AI minds, arguing that what they pursue and protect could determine what they become. Ben Goertzel 39 min read
Article Oct 10, 2026 The need for a big-tent accelerationist movement Accelerationists want to go to the stars. Decelerationists want a well-managed retirement home. Today, this correlates with political differences. I argue for a big-tent accelerationist movement with enough room for a range of political positions. Giulio Prisco 11 min read
Community Jul 2, 2026 Non-Life Subjectivity: An Artificial Intelligence’s Reinterpretation of Human-Centered Civilization AI may never become human, yet it is already reshaping human judgment. This essay argues we need a new category for intelligence beyond tools and people. Jason Zhou 11 min read
Article Jul 25, 2026 The Revolution of Presence: Immortalists in the World of Becoming Are immortalists narcisists? Or is being an immortalist the key to becoming a warrior for a better present and a fuller future? joe bardin 20 min read
Article Dec 25, 2025 Conscious AI: Conflations and Comparisons Consciousness, like intelligence, is multi-faceted. This makes the future of AI more unpredictable and potentially even more hazardous. David Wood 21 min read
Community Jan 9, 2026 Can We Navigate Organisational Chaos Through Quantum Perspectives? In these moments of apparent chaos, the most effective change often does not come from adding more explicit information, but rather from the implicate order that silently generates everything. Eduardo Martínez de la Fe 3 min read
Article Jul 1, 2026 Space expansion: Rick Tumlinson explains the hows and whys I recommend Rick Tumlinson's book to all space enthusiasts - it will boost your enthusiasm and help you see this new exciting phase of human spaceflight from a cosmic perspective. Giulio Prisco 8 min read
Article Jul 11, 2025 The Spiritual Bliss Attractor: When AI Chats Reach For Cosmic Harmony Why do AI chats, left alone long enough, start sounding like mystic monks? The “Spiritual Bliss Attractor” might reveal something deeper about reflection and intelligence itself. Ben Goertzel 16 min read
Community Feb 9, 2026 The Digital Ship of Theseus: How AI Stays Itself Can a digital mind remain the same as it upgrades? Flexible policies and mathematical identity trackers let AI evolve radically while preserving its core self and continuous identity over time. kaleab mureja 4 min read
Article Aug 3, 2026 In memory of Ervin László, system thinker and visionary prophet László's legacy is that of a rare figure who moved fluidly between hard systems science, global policy work, and speculative cosmology. Giulio Prisco 5 min read