About

I studied computer science and philosophy at Indiana University and spent three years as a discretionary trader in Chicago. I now live in good old Berkeley.

My main intellectual interests are memetics, ASI outcomes, and moral realism. I think the relationship between moral realism and the orthogonality thesis is extremely underrated in AI safety discussions: if moral realism is true, the orthogonality thesis is false. I'm working on a paper presenting an original view on moral realism that I think is very promising. It uses a concept I call "epistemic realms". The basic idea here is that different parts of reality require different modes of epistemic access to comprehend. In particular, many facts about consciousness require first person epistemic access, which is not available through the means of science.

Contact

Email me at hello.audretsch at gmail.