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Personal essays, reflections on life, and updates on what I’m thinking about.
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8 essaysUpdated 15.10.2026
2026
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Who Owns the Machines? The AI risk worth losing sleep over isn’t a rogue superintelligence. It’s cheap, AI-powered hacking of brittle infrastructure, and a handful of companies using the fear to lock everyone else out of the technology. -
Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for public trust on AI. -
Brief aan de Eerste Kamer over box 3 · A letter to the Dutch Senate on Box 3 Waarom de vermogensaanwasbelasting slecht uitpakt — voor de belastingplichtige, de schatkist en de economie. · Why the accrual tax is bad for the taxpayer, the Treasury, and the economy.
2025
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What You Need to Know About Trump’… A look at the Trump administration’… -
Actuarial Murder and Other Diffuse Acts of Violence An exploration of how institutional decisions and systemic policies can cause widespread harm with less accountability than direct violence, examining cases from healthcare to education where bureaucratic choices have life-altering consequences despite being treated as mere business decisions.
