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.
Topics (Talks & Panels)
- AI Tools for Navigating Existential Risk with Ben Goldhaber, Funding the Commons, San Francisco, 2025
- Not Your Keys, Not Your Thoughts, Superintelligence Summit, Bangkok, 2024
- AI Safety: AI Safety: Neurotech / Security / Cryptography / Multipolar Approaches, Transvision Utrecht, 2024
- The Emergence of Coordi-Nations, Vision Weekend Europe 2023
- New Sovereignties in a Networked World: the Emergence of Coordi-Nations, Funding The Commons Berlin, 2023
- Tech Trees: vision, current capabilities, the future, DeSci Berlin, 2023
- Intentional Communities as Proto-Coordi-Nations, Zuzalu, Montenegro, 2023
- Freedom of Speech, Anonymity and Autonomy: dark zones/ free zones, DevCon VI, Bogota, 2022
- Prefigurative Art to make Sci-Fi Real, OxBAT, Oxford, 2022
- Decentralized Science, DeSci Ethics, ETHBarcelona, Barcelona, 2022
- Ethics of Decentralized Science, DeSci Paris, 2022
- Decentralized Science, Open Science, and the Future, Oxford Blockchain Conference, Oxford, 2022
- Alternative Justices for Alternative Futures, SASE, New York, 2019
- War Game Simulation, Augmented Intelligence Summit, Multiversity, CA, 2019
- Commune-based Approaches to Rethinking Justice, Imagining Post Capitalism Festival, Oakland, 2018
- Communes: Engines of the Future, Emergent Communities conference, San Francisco, 2018
Interviews / discussions
- Nadya Tolokonnikova – Blockchain for Activism
- Toby Ord – Existential Risks & Existential Hope
- Joscha Bach – Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Daniel Schmachtenberger – Collective Intelligence
- Primavera de Fillipi – From Institutions to Extitutions
- Peter Eckersley – Algorithmic Tools in the Justice System
- Will Marshall – Monitoring and Preserving Spaceship Earth
- Jessy Kate Schingler – Lunar Governance
- Anders Sandberg – Positive Future Scenarios
- Ytasha Womack – Afrofuturism
Curations
- Superintelligence Summit, satellite to Devcon VII (Bangkok), 2025
- DeSci Bangkok, satellite to Devcon VII (Bangkok), 2025
- Nodes Program, Edge Lana (Chiang Mai), 2025
- Foresight Vision Weekends 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017
- DeSci Workshop 2024 satellite to EthCC (Bruxelles)
- DeSci Workshop 2023 in partnership with Funding the Commons, satellite to EthCC (Paris)
- DeSci Workshop 2022 in partnership with the CNRS, satellite to EthCC (Paris)
- Existential Hope Salons Series 2023, Berlin, Zuzalu, London, Paris, Istanbul
- Existential Hope Salons Series 2021, online
- Existential Hope Salons Series 2020, online
- Existential Hope Salons Series 2019, San Francisco
- Augmented Intelligence Summit, 2019, Scotts Valley, CA
Other Projects & collaborations
- Swarm Foundation: Freedom of Speech Corner | EthCC V (2022), EthBerlin (2022), Devcon VI Bogotá (2022)
- Prison abolition | Harm prevention and alternative justice systems for communes and collectives.
- LAB GALLERY | The first purpose-driven NFT gallery funding high-impact, neglected science.
- Love_crypto_poetry_therapy | Chaos Computer Club rC3 – Remote Chaos Experience (2019), Feÿ Arts (2022), Devcon VI Bogotá (2022)
- Feÿ Arts (2019, 2022, 2024)
- BED TALKS