Nikola Danaylov Ⓥ

What if ending #suffering isn't a dream but an engineering problem? Philosopher David Pearce has staked his life on it. My 2013 talk with the co-founder of the World #Transhumanist Association: snglrty.co/4orFFDi

13 years ago, James Barrat warned #AI would be our final invention. Most of us shrugged. His framing: AI is more like ballistic missiles than video games. Read that with 2026 eyes. Some conversations age. Others ripen. snglrty.co/3Hqcxvn

13 years ago, physicist Frank J. Tipler told me I don't understand the laws of #physics. That's why, he said, I can't see why the #Singularity is inevitable. Or why it's perfectly compatible with Christianity. Maybe he's right. 🎙️ snglrty.co/4mrpCUb

13 years ago, Godfrey Reggio told me we were already in the 'cyborg state.' Not because chips were in our heads. Because our attention had been outsourced. Before TikTok. Before generative #AI. The frame was right. The timeline was conservative. snglrty.co/4mnXWPT

There is no dataset for grief. No metric for justice. No optimizer for legitimacy. And yet we keep bringing the Hammer of #AI to every problem we face. The world is full of marriages, meanings, conflicts, griefs. All mistaken for nails. snglrty.co/4fesBic

13 years ago, I drove to Vermont to meet Bruce Duncan of the Terasem Movement Foundation. We talked about mind files, Bina 48, and digital immortality. In 2013, fringe. In 2026, the conversation. "There is no better author of your story than you." snglrty.co/4wqbpwE

12 yrs ago, I asked VC Brad Feld about the #singularity, #AI, #minduploading, and #techunemployment. His answer: be optimistic. Not the naive kind. The kind that looks straight at the mess and builds anyway. In 2026, his words land harder than ever. snglrty.co/4mlgUqj

12 years ago, I interviewed Ramez Naam about #AI, mind-machine interfaces, surveillance, and post-humans. In 2014: speculation. In 2026: headlines. His line still cuts: "The future isn't set in stone. It depends on the choices we make." ▶️ snglrty.co/3HbM3O9

There is no formula for love. No formula for meaning. No formula for grief. We keep looking for one. Increasingly, we look at #AI. The Hammer of AI keeps breaking what we were trying to mend. When complexity arrives, do you reach for the hammer? snglrty.co/4da463f

A great episode by @singularityblog The Great Progression: Peter Leyden on AI, Trump and the Next 25 Years singularityweblog.com/the-great-prog…

#Meta admitted in court: only 7% of time on Instagram and 17% on Facebook is actually #social. The "social network" was never social. Friends are finite. Attention is not. The problem is no longer hidden. The question is whether we say no. snglrty.co/4qIboAJ

12 yrs ago, Steve Omohundro was mapping #AI safety problems we're scrambling to solve in 2026. His 'AI Drives' research and work on provably safe systems were years ahead of the field. Watch our #Singularity 1on1 conversation: snglrty.co/44ZseTu

12 years ago, physicist-turned-bioprinter Gabor Forgacs told me: "We live in a time when it is really difficult to say: This is impossible." In 2026, that's not a quote. It's a job description. 🎧 Full interview: snglrty.co/4l09Eiz

When answers are free, questions become priceless. When content is infinite, context becomes everything. When machines can do the how, the why becomes the only real differentiator. The meta-skills that will matter in the #AI age: snglrty.co/4srQOpn

A man marching forward, blinded by a flag. It's Banksy’s new statue appeared overnight in London’s Waterloo Place.

@peteleyden sees an old world dying so a better one can be born. His forthcoming HarperCollins book, #TheGreatProgression, argues we are entering a new Enlightenment driven by #AI. Are you a Leyden #optimist or a Yudkowsky doomer? snglrty.co/3QG63Nj

Most people walked out of Dune cheering for the wrong person. That's Herbert's whole point, and we keep missing it. We banned the machines. We built gods instead. Dune isn't a hero's journey. It's a warning. snglrty.co/41l0Ex2

12 yrs ago, I sat down with Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro, the man who builds #android copies of himself. His thesis: "#Technology is a way to understand what is human." In 2026, as #humanoids walk off factory floors, his questions stopped being sci-fi. snglrty.co/46xJGzt