anti·u·ni·tar·y: against the single, settled view.
Welcome! This publication is my primary outlet for writing content that I am interested in professionally and personally. That means there will be a wide range of topics that will be published, though content will be primarily centered around technology trends, markets, economics, politics, philosophy, and cognitive science. My hope is that this publication will spark interesting debates amongst my audience as I merely look to engage in intellectual conversation and hopefully push the dialogue forward where possible.
Who is the author?
I’m currently building Seven Bridges, an independent research firm focused on building quantitative data products for institutional investors. Previously, I was a managing director and senior equity research analyst at D.A. Davidson, where I spent the majority of my time on frontier AI labs and compute infrastructure. I also recently received by bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon where I studied philosophy, ethics, and cognitive science.
What are some things I’m passionate about?
The trajectory of human civilization. How we accelerate and evolve as a species in a rapidly changing world. This has led to interests in substrate independence and whether consciousness is tied to biology or something potentially more portable. Along with the idea that given sufficient computational power, an advanced civilization could simulate entire societies indistinguishable from reality.
Investing in humanities. We're severely underweighting the disciplines that study what is uniquely human such as art, literature, philosophy, and psychology. As AI fundamentally reshapes society, I believe these fields become more important, not less. Thus it seems intuitive that we should be creating a humanities-equivalent of the Arc Institute to incentivize meaningful humanistic work so our society can better absorb rapid technological change.
Make learning cool again. The current education system is one of our country's greatest failures, where we're rewarding credentialism over genuine mastery or the literal love of knowledge that philosophy was named for. We are not educating children at the pace we should be, especially when new tools exist that could fundamentally change how we teach. While reform is hard, I believe we owe it to future generations to fight for their success.
How can I support the publication?
Right now, consuming antiunitary content is completely free to the reader. That being said, it would be much appreciated if you are able to support this Substack and become a paid subscriber. Becoming a paid subscriber of this publication will allow me to spend greater time on writing quality content, as well as potentially pursuing other content forms such as podcasting.
Contact
I love meeting and talking to new people. If you have any feedback or suggestions for this publication or just comments in general, feel free to reach out to my email: alex@platt.kr.
