About

TL;DR existential everything, fully automated luxury queer space anarchism

A lot of my work revolves around investigating existential paradigms in technology and society, encouraging interdisciplinary dialogues, and fostering spaces where people can meet and scheme to create better futures. I’m an avid salonnière; organize convenings & spaces to build, workshop intellectual reflections, and give the occasional talk on these topics.

Main Projects

California Institute for Machine Consciousness

A nonprofit working on understanding the nature and functionality of consciousness from a computationalist perspective. We want to conduct experimental philosophy by formulating testable theories, conducting simulations, and building artifacts that allow us to explore and test our understanding of consciousness. We aim to foster a culture and ethics built on a deeper understanding of consciousness.

Shift Grants

Started this grant program in partnership with Edge City. Goal is to fund projects aligned with d/acc—that’s decentralized, democratic, differential, defensive acceleration. In the long term, our “Network Nations”-aligned vision is for this program to become a Science & Tech Department embedded within pop-up city context - fundamentally we’re trying to build new and better human coordination infrastructure for science and tech development.

Feÿtopia

An extitutional commune of thinkers and builders hosted at Chateau du Feÿ. running from January to May every year. I co-build the temporary commune, with a focus on governance, coordination, emotional care, conflict transformation, and extitutionality.

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