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A critique of rational philanthropy
I give 20% of any money I earn to mental health research. This essay argues that rational philanthropy turns giving into a dispassionate cost-benefit analysis rather than a caring act.
Why I disdain effective accelerationists.
A Calvinist critique of effective accelerationism, arguing that accelerationist ideology makes the human substrate morally dispensable in service of a thermodynamic abstraction.
On Bell Labs, Neurodivergence, and Neoliberal Capital
I disdain the fact that talking about neurodivergence today is often treated as woke, modernist, or somehow left-coded. That's not because I don't sit on the left — but because I find it ultimately reductive to treat neurodivergence as just a question of individual decency.