Global World Order and the Creation of AGI - What Hugo de Garis is Right About Dan Faggella

Hugo de Garis is one of the first AGI thinkers that I came across in 2012, when I decided to focus my life on the post-human transition. Aside from Bostrom and Al-Rodhan, few thinkers molded my early ideas about AGI and transhumanism more than de Garis. I believe that two of his ideas are extremely important, and are somewhat absent in most of the artificial general intelligence conversations today (and even most of the discussions from 2010-2014). Those ideas are what de Garis calls "Globism" (global world order) and "Cosmism" (the belief that humanity should create diety-level machine intelligences). The following screenshot is from de Garis's (seemingly neglected) online blog: Since first exploring Kurzweil's ideas in The Singularity is Near, it seemed evident to me that the default mode of technology development would be competition – the economic or military "state of nature" – and that conflict is extremely likely if new forms of thinking and valuing come into existence.