This week Dr. Richard Sutton. Known for his breakthroughs in reinforcement learning, Richard serves as a Professor at The University of Alberta and Research Scientist at Keen Technologies (an artificial general intelligence lab he started with John Carmack).

This is the second installment of The Worthy Successor series - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futures humanity might strive towards in the years ahead.

This episode referred to the following other essays and resources:
-- A Worthy Successor - The Purpose of AGI: https://danfaggella.com/worthy

Watch this episode on The Trajectory YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/fRzL5Mt0c8A

Read Richard Sutton's episode highlight: danfaggella.com/sutton1/

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There are three main questions we cover here on the Trajectory:

1. Who are the power players in AGI and what are their incentives?

2. What kind of posthuman future are we moving towards, or should we be moving towards?

3. What should we do about it?

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