De Garis's answer in the interview "Seeking the Sputnik of AGI" (2011; read in his 2015 e-book reprint), asked by Goertzel which he would choose, states that he vacillates but that if he really had to choose he would choose "Cosmist", since freezing evolution at the human level would be "a cosmic tragedy".

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