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The Company Man — LessWrong

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To get to the campus, I have to walk past the fentanyl zombies. I call them fentanyl zombies because it helps engender a sort of detached, low-empath…

x The Company Man — LessWrong The Origami Men and Other Stories Fiction Ethics & Morality Curated 2025 Top Fifty: 82 % 831 The Company Man by Tomás B. 17th Sep 2025 22 min read 79 831 To get to the campus, I have to walk past the fentanyl zombies. I call them fentanyl zombies because it helps engender a sort of detached, low-empathy, ironic self-narrative which I find useful for my work; this being a form of internal self-prompting I've developed which allows me to feel comfortable with both the day-to-day "jobbing" (that of improving reinforcement learning algorithms for a short-form video pl

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