Ethics Blogs

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Maimonides on negative theology — What did Maimonides mean by saying we can only say what God is not? I unpack his apophatic theology from the Guide of th
Socratic politics: Lessons from the Gorgias — What if democracy trumps philosophy? I push back on Richard Rorty's "priority of democracy to philosophy", using Plato's
"Moral progress" vs. the simple passage of time — Can moral choices be judged as real progress rather than random change? In this post I unpack moral progress vs the simp
Debatable Persons in a Voluntary Polis — Could creating some AIs be a moral catastrophe? I defend anti-natalism about debatable persons and critique the Design P
Debatable AI Persons: No Rights, Full Rights, Animal-Like Rights, Credence-Weighted Rights, or Patchy Rights? — Facing an AI that might be conscious, what should we do about AI personhood and rights? I advise avoiding creation of de
How Much Should We Give a Joymachine? — What if my neighbor felt a million times more joy? In this holiday post I imagine conscious AI joymachines Hum and Sum,
“What is fair… and who decides?” — What counts as fair in sport? I recommend Rose Eveleth's Tested podcast, a six-part series on gender verification in spo
Somewhere Between Mischief and Extortion — Where’s the line between cheeky opportunism and outright exploitation? I’m exploring that grey area through recent event
Is Murder Bad? — Provocative ethics: murder badness contextual island tranquility vs mainland threats. Taiwan life reframes violence mora
The Internet of Consent — Vision for web rebuilt around explicit user consent, not surveillance assumptions. Technical/privacy manifesto challengi
They have to be able to talk about us without us — Disability rights parallel: tech discussions about marginalized groups exclude those groups. Demands "nothing about us w
The Majority AI View — Critiques dominant AI narratives ignoring most people's real concerns jobs, bias, control. Calls for "majority view" cen