Impartial Priorities

Glossary of Words, Concepts, & Scales I Use

This is an excerpt from The NPD Bible, my compassionate guide to recovery from NPD, whose first draft is about 13% done.

Jul 13 • Dawn Drescher

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June 2026

Speedup from AI Ghostwriting

AI ghostwriting can save me about two days of typing per article – not much in the scheme of things but worth considering thanks to various ancillary…

Jun 22 • Dawn Drescher

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Tactical and Operational Exploratory Modeling for AI Governance

Using computational methods to improve our preparedness via more robust and adaptive strategies in AI governance. A project proposal for a think tank…

Jun 16 • Dawn Drescher

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On Responsibility and Death

Can we see reality for what it is or will it break us

Jun 15 • Dawn Drescher

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May 2026

Pathological Narcissism: The Pendulum Swing between Echoism and Sovereignism

Chapter 4: Most of my friends with pathological narcissism have more echoist and more sovereign sides. What determines which one takes the stage?

May 21 • Dawn Drescher

Welfare Biology and AI: The AI Eats the Sun

Chapter 5: The AI eats the sun and Earth’s biosphere goes with it. Dyson swarm timelines, suffering factories on a cosmic scale, digital minds, and the…

May 6 • Dawn Drescher

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Welfare Biology and AI: The Psychopath, the Nematode, and the Arahant

Chapter 4: Pain without a sufferer: a speculative model of invertebrate experience, drawn from no-self psychopathy and Buddhist phenomenology, and what…

May 3 • Dawn Drescher

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Welfare Biology and AI: What We Can Do Now

Chapter 3: From soil-welfare research to the New World Screwworm: a practical portfolio for wild-invertebrate welfare.

May 1 • Dawn Drescher

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April 2026

The Villain We Invented: Dr. Mark Ettensohn on Pathological Narcissism

The clinical reality of NPD – its dimensional structure, the attachment shape it takes, the etiological paths in, and the patient work of healing.

Apr 28 • Dawn Drescher

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Welfare Biology and AI: Soil and Sea

Chapter 2: There are 57 billion nematodes per human. Boreal forests pack 7× more per square meter than cropland. The numbers, the mechanisms, and why…

Apr 23 • Dawn Drescher

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Effective Afterlife Altruism: A New Cause Area at the Intersection of Theology, Nematology, and Symmetric Total Utilitarianism

Why paradise-maxxing for invertebrates may be the most cost-effective intervention in history

Apr 1 • Dawn Drescher

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March 2026

Welfare Biology and AI: The Quiz

Chapter 1: Are you Quiverfull, pro-life, or pro-choice – but for nematodes? A quiz to find your place on the welfare ecology map.

Mar 17 • Dawn Drescher

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