Into What Anthropology? Whose Flourishing, Measured by Whom

The question the accelerationist binary forecloses — a response to Jeremy Boreing on AI, doomers, and boomers

Last week Jeremy Boreing posted a thread on X about Sam Altman’s purchase of euthanasia-conditioned brain preservation, framing the debate around AI as a contest between doomers and what Silicon Valley calls boomers — the camp Boreing translates as builders — and arguing, persuasively in some respects, that conservative withdrawal from the technological…