John M. Smart
Futurist and director of the EvoDevo Institute whose work spans accelerating change, developmental systems, and long-term trajectories of intelligence; known for advocating 'accelerationology' and evo-devo perspectives on intelligence evolution.
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Jan 30, 2026 • 3h 47min
John Smart - Evolution from Cells to Super-intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 21)
John M. Smart, futurist and director of the EvoDevo Institute, maps intelligence as staged development from chemistry to digital minds. He discusses metasystem transitions, computation densification, speed gaps between humans and digital cognition, evo-devo constraints like Hox genes, natural alignment ideas, and hopeful attractor scenarios for cooperative, accountable posthuman networks.
