Trevor
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Trevor is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 20, 2023 and June 18, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Trevor’s understandably morally anxious about benefiting from his Jewish ethnicity”; “Trevor pivoted to trying to market the drugs in cats”. It most often appears alongside Africa, GPT-4, Kentucky.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 20, 2023
- Last seen: June 18, 2025
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
28: Trevor Klee’s “Birthright” trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa has some oil billionaires fighting to keep it a good place to live while the rest of the Midwest hollows out, apparently successfully. In particular, two of the billionaires are Jewish and want to preserve Tulsa’s Jewish community. They’re offering very lucrative packages of benefits (including guaranteed cushy jobs at their nonprofits, or extraordinary levels of financial support for creative/business projects) to Jews who move to Tulsa.
Inline links: Trevor Klee’s “Birthright” trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma
Trevor’s understandably morally anxious about benefiting from his Jewish ethnicity. Should he be? Is this any worse than benefiting from white privilege or male privilege or whatever other forms of privilege they’ve invented since I last checked? Is it any worse than benefiting from being an American, and so having access to social support and benefit programs that Sudanese and Bangladeshis can only dream of? I’m not sure.
Trevor pivoted to trying to market the drugs in cats (who also get the relevant diseases) as proof-of-concept and a way to make enough money to be able to scale up to humans. He reports:
In a later update, Trevor said that some of the regulatory issues have been resolved and he is feeling more optimistic.