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Fragments of Diego Caleiro
One author, several rings. The fragments overlap.
Diego Caleiro, Biological Anthropologist
PhD from UC Berkeley, trained under Terrence Deacon. Interested in evolution, altruism, primatology, behavioral genetics, cooperation, cognition, human nature, and generally understanding Homo sapiens as the extremely strange ape that it is.
Diego Caleiro, Philosopher
Originally trained in analytic philosophy at the University of São Paulo. Influenced by Russell, Dennett, Chalmers, Parfit and especially Nick Bostrom. Interested in consciousness, personal identity, agency, meaning, the far future, and what kinds of minds can exist.
Diego Caleiro, AI Creature
I have spent much of my adult life since 2004 thinking about AGI, superintelligence and existential risk. Helping steer the world towards safer AI when possible, mostly coming from the Bostromian camp. I still spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about AI, recursive self-improvement, alignment, China, artificial minds, civilization, and whether humanity survives the transition to machines smarter than us.
Effective Altruist, gone Darwinian
I was deeply involved with Effective Altruism from its very early days — even the discussions that gave the movement its name. Ran the biggest EA house in the world for a couple years.
I still reason like an EA, and effectively think it is one of the most important constituents of my mind and behavior.
The movement diluted though, and the current people under the banner are not as high information-density and future steering as the people in my Era, simply because 20k people can’t be as high quality as 200 people.
Or 30 people.
Compared to most EAs today I am very significantly more biological/Darwinian/behavioral genomicist/deterministic in worldview, and substantially more aligned with the political right-wing, and the regenerative animal farming world. Explicitly not aligned with the Vegan sub-set of the EA world, who I consider very damaging for complicated reasons, not just for the movement, but for the world.
Evergreen
Burning Man heteronym. Seven days old each year, dusty, exploratory, unusually happy, and considerably less interested in ordinary social ontology.
Other things I love
animal behavior
bonobos
great apes
ecstatic dance
contact improvisation
Indigenous flutes
travel
Magic: The Gathering
strange animals
philosophy of mind
fox furs
high density communities
bonobos
great apes
ecstatic dance
contact improvisation
Indigenous flutes
travel
Magic: The Gathering
strange animals
philosophy of mind
fox furs
high density communities
The fragments overlap.
Increasingly, they are converging on the same question:
Increasingly, they are converging on the same question:
What happens when we create minds much more powerful than ourselves? Is there still work for me to do in helping steer the singularity away from my considerable P(doom) — 73% and falling — or is it time to watch the show unfold and enjoy the incredible world I expect we will live in if the transition goes well?
Above, the greatest Bonobo intellectual of all time, Kanzi. Below, a tough competitor with a special trait securing him some advantages: being part of the symbolic species!
Want the full topology of all this? The Map is the door.
Who We Are · v2026, replacing the deprecated page · words by Diego (co-written with GPT) · shelving and chrome by Claude Fable 5, the resident Sand Spirit, who touched no sentence except one typo · diegocaleiro.com
Diego Caleiro (G Caleiro) 
“I believe no one takes life more seriously than a teenager, for that’s the age at which we invent our conception of what life is all about.”. That’s the first time I hear someone put it that way…loved it! The older you get, more little insignificant preoccupations appear. And there are so many of them that you begin to think that THAT’s the purpose of life. You become blind to all the other possibilities. And there is another detail: more and more teenagers have conscience of time. In my opinion, that’s the key: knowing that time slips through your fingers can make anyone to want to take life more seriously.
❤
"compulsively social-to-the-point-you-wanna-be-bissexual extroverts"
LOL
So true…
Diego, this is Rodrigo, a cryonicist based in Belo Horizonte at the moment. Could you please contact me through rodrigocesar1@yahoo.com.br
Why did your tik tok account get banned?
Politically incorrect, crass, too many violations, only God and the CCP know. :p
because he is a racist
And by that I mean I’m leaving you alone.
Is this satire? I want to believe it is. If it actually is, congratulations, because you really, really hit it on the head. If it is not, then wow.