Claim · 2023-11-24 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Faggella's essay, posted on 24 November 2023 and read as updated in 2026, states that AGI would almost certainly be essential to the project of a "Worthy Successor" and that in the longer term non-biological substrates will be more prominent than biological ones in carrying forth life's flourishing.

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What it connects

A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI → articulates → Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence

Where it appears

Machine succession, scale and acceleration: propositions in located texts, 1979–2026 →

Claim and evidence

A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGIarticulates ↓Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2023-11-24 · publication Records dated 2023 →
Wording attested: 2026-10-15. The page was read as updated on 2026-10-15; the wording of the 2023 posting was not read (the cross-family check did not find the same paragraph's sentence on Kurzweil in the archive capture of 26 February 2024).
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsThe cross-family check found these passages in an archive capture of 26 February 2024. That update's opening note states that "successionism" "hasn’t once been my take" and that the aim of the thought experiment is "to overtly prevent a brute takeover from an AGI"; the preceding sentence states that this is by no means advocacy for a hard break from biology to compute; and the essay also states "We may be part of the successor" (FAQ 7).

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI

Author's site (danfaggella.com) · 2023-11-24

Archived copy, captured 2024-02-26: A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI

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Source excerpt

“AGI would almost certainly be essential for the project – and Kurzweil is almost certainly right that in the longer term non-biological substrates will be more prominent and important for carrying forth life’s flourishing”

Location in source Body, paragraph beginning "That said, AGI", after the paragraph that names the Worthy Successor as the moral aim of AGI

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Daniel Faggella
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 6bf1e51355936be1889156fb03c11171f602b3af49c2a96d6cb05f3c2fefa5ed). current page, dated November 24, 2023 and updated October 15, 2026, with an opening note in square brackets; the earlier wording was not read. The cross-family check of 2026-11-01 compared the archive capture of 26 February 2024: it holds the galaxy aim and the list of capabilities, but not the current wording of the successor aim and its conclusion, the sentence on Kurzweil or the opening and closing notes on slowing down.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2024-02-26: A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI. Captured 94 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2024-02-26. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-31.
Attribution: Daniel Faggella, “A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI”, 2023-11-24.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (33 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Relation. A passage of the document meets the proposition’s criterion. The record documents what the text states, in its register (fiction and satire are labelled); it is not evidence that the proposition is true and implies no influence on or from another text.

Date. Posting date as the current page states it (24 November 2023); the capture of 26 February 2024 gives 22 December 2023. Both are as stated; neither is preferred.

Record ID ht-w01-faggella-2023-worthy-successor