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Ginevra Lily Davis

AI / Philosophy 

"The Silicon Man," Arena Books. Essay forthcoming online in 2026. In the meantime, pre-order a "Silicon" print book here


"The Best Possible World." Arena. Profile of Noor Siddiqui from Orchid Health. 2024.

"The Prophet of Doom Gets Positive." Arena Magazine. Review of Nick Bostrom's Deep Utopia. 2024.

"How Feminism Ends." Review of Emmanuel Todd's Linages of the Feminine. American Affairs. 2024.

Documenting Nihilism ​

"The New Atlantis." The Miami Native. 2023. (Website defunct, RIP)

"Internet People." Palladium. 2022.

"When the Stagnation Goes Virtual" Palladium. 2022.

Social Criticism

"When Every Child is a Choice." Palladium. 2023.

"What Genius Looks Like." Profile of mathematician James Glimm. Palladium. 2023.

"Stanford's War on Social Life." Palladium. 2022.​ Sidney Award for Best Essay of 2022 in the New York Times.

Aesthetic Musings​

"Stein Hoisting." Review of marathon reading of Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans. The New Criterion. 2024.

"In Defense of Art Basel." Review of Art Basel Miami Beach. The New Criterion. 2024.

"The Un-Sexiness of Sex Positivity." Tablet. 2023.

Ginevra is a writer living in the Bay Area. She writes about technology, capitalism, and why good things are good. 

Currently thinking about: Meta-ethics, ASI, and what should be done with the universe. (More to come).

I like people and also good things that are not people.

Last year, threw an event about post-humanism in San Francisco. 

Senior Editor at Arena Magazine. 

B.S., Symbolic Systems, Stanford.

Technically on leave

Fun fact: Named after this painting.

Pink Poppy Flowers
(Someday we'll get here. Credit to Max Tegmark)
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