Computer Science and Economics at the University of Utah, expected Dec 2027. Targeting a PhD — probably in the human-computer interaction, information science, or computational social science space.
I have a problem where I think about way too many things at once and can't quite pin one down. So writings here span evolutionary biology, game theory, philosophy, the extremity to which modern society is different than what we evolved in, and whatever else I feel connects to the strange place the earth is and how we all appeared with consciousness here and have to deal with it.
AI hasn't just made information cheaper to find — it's collapsed the entire cost structure of acquiring, distributing, and repackaging knowledge. The thing that used to differentiate people (knowing stuff) is now basically free, which means the actual differentiator is logic: the ability to select, frame, judge, and reason about information.
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