Shifting the ethics, policy, and philosophy of life extension

Raiany spends most of her time thinking about how converging technologies will transform governments and human nature in the coming decades.

She’s particularly interested in why secular humans narrate aging as a net-positive, teleological phenomenon—and in the negative effects of this narrative on economies and people. She has written for outlets including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and ABC, and is currently working on a book aimed at shifting the ethics, policy, and philosophy of life extension.

In short, Raiany likes to tell stories about the stories humans like to tell themselves on the value of aging and death, and on the nature of progress.

Conflicted lover of poems, U.S. innovation, and quaint towns

In her free time, Raiany can be found baking, geeking out about Newport, RI, or reciting spooky German poetry. Raiany comes from Brazil, but at heart, she’s less Latina than Eastern European (she did live in Poland for five years). Since moving to America, she has channeled her love for quaint European towns into semi-quaint New England. She’ll admit, on occasion, that New England towns are only ever half pretty — with the dubious exception of Newport, RI, which could maybe (she argues) win a quaintness contest against, say, Cinque Terre in Italy.

Raiany likes to daydream of living in a small town on the mountains of Switzerland, just like Nietzsche before her. But really, she could never trade the thrill of U.S. innovation for a perennially quiet writing desk. This is perhaps the central dilemma of her life.