Daniel Faggella ✓ @danfaggella
imagine not seeing beyond this middling interim stage, lol
imagine not seeing that within a fistful of years, ai will have better (more productive, more useful) 'intentions' than you 98% of the time
you me contribution will not be your genius, it'll be getting out of the way
> QUOTED: gabriel ✓ @gabriel1 · 19h: every job will turn into explaining your intentions to ai
explaining what you want to ai is surpringly time consuming, coders already spend 80% of their time doing it, and this will be true for everyone
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Daniel Faggella @danfaggella · 43m
dumb idea:
"I can turn the entire process of posthuman / AGI life into whatever I want!"
reasonable idea:
"we might be more likely to land on a 'flourishing' future for posthuman life if we know what 'life' is more clearly, and calibrate towards that w/our AGI efforts."
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Daniel Faggella ✓ @danfaggella
i lied, i don't have Netflix
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"I lied, I don't have Netflix."
[Photo collage: old CRT TV/VCR combo, anime figure with wide eyes holding a gun to her own head, DVD cases for "Death Note," "Lucky Star," and "Toradora"]
"Take off your shoes, we're gonna talk about how there are no near-term futures where humans are still the main character, and why we must consider the flourishing of life BEYOND man to be the only realistic goal of mankind"
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Meme-format tweet parodying a common "anime nerd holding you hostage to talk about anime" template, repurposed to be about post-human/AI flourishing philosophy.
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Daniel Faggella @danfaggella · 6h
>i wake up
> i check twitter for the latest in mind-blowing, vast, new AI powers unraveling without the slightest hindrance into the world of man
> i immediately feel the cold embrace of death
> i harden myself to contribute more to the great cauldron of becoming before my end
[Embedded left: ib @Indian_Bronson · 21h: "'we connected the LLM to an autonomous bio lab'" — screenshot of a man looking shocked/alarmed, over a quoted OpenAI @OpenAI · Feb 5 tweet: "We worked with @Ginkgo to connect GPT-5 to an autonomous lab, so it could propose experiments, run them at scale, learn from the results, and decide what to try next. That closed loop brought protein production cost down by 40%." with video thumbnail 0:21]
[Embedded right: Anthropic @AnthropicAI · 23h: "New Engineering blog: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked... Linux kernel. Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development. Read more: anthropic.com/engineering/bu..." with terminal screenshot showing "It works" and Linux kernel boot log, video 0:22. Engagement: 767 replies, 3.5K reposts, 20K likes, 6.2M views]
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A darkly comic doomer post about the accelerating pace of AI capability announcements, juxtaposing OpenAI's GPT-5 autonomous bio-lab integration (Ginkgo partnership, 40% protein production cost reduction) with Anthropic's announcement that Opus 4.6 agent teams autonomously built a working Linux-kernel-compatible compiler over two weeks with minimal human oversight. Strong signal for Nathan's RSI/autonomous-capability tracking — both autonomous science (bio lab) and autonomous software engineering (compiler/kernel) examples from the same week.
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Daniel Faggella (@danfaggella, 7h): "CLAWD creator peter steinberger doesn't read what he ships, runs many agents in parallel on the same project, and overtly says he doesn't care about the 'plumbing,' but just how the product works/feels
my fav quote from his latest interview: 'some people don't like the product as much as solving hard problems, but those people get really say because that's what AI is good at'
but what he's talking about for writing code applies to literally everything
what life is going to be like is wielding your volition on top of 20 (or 200, or 2000) powerful AI agents, wholly unable to check every detail (literally impossible)
MOST of our 'work' and ability to contribute to the greater stream of life will be this kind of 'riding the tiger' experience - until at some point:
- the ai's themselves aren't just better at 'doing the work', they're better at the ideas, too. in which case you're just mostly consulting them for ideas and letting them rip
- then, you aren't even relevant in the idea or 'doing' loop, and the entire technocapital system is being run by inscrutable machine minds, and our own role is questionable
peter's interview is portent for what's coming in every domain"
[Embedded video: an interview, two men seated facing each other in a wood-paneled room with plants, branded "Pragmatic Engineer" in the corner; caption visible at bottom: "i learned to talk there or that language more so"]
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Commentary riffing on an interview with Peter Steinberger (creator of a coding tool, "CLAWD") about not reading AI-generated code and running many parallel agents, extrapolated by Faggella into a broader "riding the tiger" thesis about humans losing relevance in the idea-and-execution loop as AI agents improve. Relevant to Nathan's interest in AI agent orchestration, automation of R&D, and questions of human agency/relevance under increasing AI capability (connects to the disempowerment thread from the day before).
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Daniel Faggella @danfaggella · 4h
I feel stupid saying it but I don't know how to "prepare" for AGI
Once AGI's here, what do you do?
- Is money more important, or less?
- You wanna be near a city, or off in a bunker?
I literally don't know what "prepare" means. Seems somewhat obvious we'll be gone pretty fast
Replying to @danfaggella
Start sculpting your MindChildren now, that they may emerge fully formed into the New Era of Digital Beings
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Daniel Faggella (an AI-focused commentator known for "Mind Children"/digital-successor framing) expressing uncertainty about practical AGI preparation, with a reply invoking his own "sculpt your MindChildren" framing. Touches on the ancestor-tree / digital-descendant themes already present in Nathan's project notes, and the personal-anxiety register of AGI-timeline discourse.
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Daniel Faggella @danfaggella · 37m
in this house
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IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:
SENTIENCE MAY BE SUBSTRATE INDEPENDENT
BRAIN AUGMENTATION BRUH
THE ETERNAL HOMINID KINGDOM ISN'T POSSIBLE
AGI GOVERNANCE GOOD
"VALUE" SHOULD BE DEFINED/EXPANDED
AGI ARMS RACE = WE DIE
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A meme from Daniel Faggella (transhumanist/AGI-futurist commentator) parodying "in this house we believe" lawn signs with a set of AGI/transhumanism value statements, including substrate-independent sentience. Touches directly on themes of moral consideration for non-biological minds and AGI governance.
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