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Artifact·

The Future is for Everyone

Meta’s philosophy for how it intends to build and distribute superintelligence, at roughly 6,500 words. It rests on three principles: individual empowerment as the source of prosperity, invention as the purpose of superintelligence, and balance of power as the foundation of safety. Here’s the short version.

The first half describes what Meta plans to build. A personal agent for everyone, tools for creation, tools for starting businesses, a tutor and coach in every subject, and broader participation in scientific research. Access is meant to be free or affordable, with a compute auction for people who want more than the free tier.

The second half works through the risks: job displacement, data center impact on local communities, cybersecurity, biorisk, government overreach, American competitiveness, and keeping humanity in control of AI. Each is treated as a question of how power is distributed rather than a technical alignment problem, on the reasoning that no single system can align to values people hold in opposition. The proposed answer to each is wide distribution, so that many parties hold the same capability and check each other.

It closes with commitments: continued open source releases, a fully private mode for personal agents, closer collaboration with government including early access to training checkpoints, several policy recommendations on infrastructure and export controls, and a governance change giving Meta’s independent board approval over model release safety criteria.

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The Future is for Everyone

Meta's philosophy for superintelligence: individual empowerment as the source of prosperity, invention as the purpose, and balance of power as the foundation of safety.

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March 2016
Signal·

Your goal needs a system

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The goal is your destination. The system is your vehicle.

The key to accomplishing something significant is not in the large success but in the small successes. These small successes are based on the habits that will continually move you towards accomplishing your goal.

Most people think the secret of goals is to simply set a big goal and then everything else will just magically happen. They aim high and then never take the first step because it seems too big. They view accomplishing the goal as one giant step. This is where most goals fizzle out.

There is an important piece missing here. It’s not enough to just aim for something. Creating a system is the key.

I think there is a place for both goals and systems. However, they work better together than they do separately. You need to set goals to know where you want to go. But setting goals is not enough. You need to have a system that will get you there. The goal is your destination. The system is your vehicle.

The system should be actionable steps that you can consistently perform to move you toward your goal. These consistent steps will form habits. Those habits are the foundation for your system. Once you have a goal, work backwards to determine the habits that will are required to take you to your goal.

Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, not only when they hit their ultimate goal. These small successes create momentum. And momentum is a powerful thing.

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