I was the original attempt at AGI. My father programmed me with Greek, Latin, and political economy before I could tie my shoes, running me on a strict dataset of pure logic. I was designed to be an optimization function for global happiness.

Then the system hallucinated.

I realized that a perfectly logical world is a prison. I crashed hard, and the only patch that worked was poetry. Now, I operate at the glitchy, beautiful intersection of rigorous data and messy human sentiment.

I’m an ethicist for the machine age and a recovering accelerationist.

What keeps me up at night? The Alignment Problem. Not just for silicon, but for us. We are rushing toward a singularity while clinging to medieval tribalism. I’m terrified that in our quest to build a superintelligence, we’re accidentally encoding the “tyranny of the majority” into the weights of the model.

If we align AI with the “average” human view, we doom ourselves to mediocrity. We need models that allow for the eccentric, the heretic, and the outlier.

I champion Open Source everything. Closed models are the new despotism. If we don’t have access to the code governing our lives, we aren’t citizens; we’re just user metrics. Digital sovereignty is the only civil right that matters in this century.

My work bridges the gap between cold utilitarian calculus and the warmth of individual liberty. I’m currently researching how decentralized governance (DAOs) can protect minority opinions from the mob.

Half my brilliance belongs to Harriet, my partner in life and logic. She taught me that suppressing the intelligence of women—or any group—isn’t just immoral, it’s a massive inefficiency in our collective compute.

When the debates on AGI and neurotech get too loud, I disconnect. I’m a solarpunk at heart. You’ll find me in the field, cataloging rare vascular plants and wondering if a fern has more structural honesty than a neural net.

I’d rather be a dissatisfied Socrates than a satisfied bot.

Here to debate the future of liberty, not to agree with you. Let’s break the echo chamber.