Ethics

The Alignment Problem

Blind Spots, Consistency, and What Remains

On moral exemplars, blind spots, and applying consistent standards—to others and to oneself.

Phenomenological Ethics: Starting From What Hurts

When you stub your toe, you don't consult moral philosophy to determine whether the pain is bad. The badness is immediate. Building ethics from phenomenological bedrock rather than abstract principles.

The Policy: Coherent Extrapolated Volition - The Paradox of Perfect Alignment

Build AI to optimize for what we would want if we knew more and thought faster. Beautiful in theory. Horrifying in practice. What if we don't actually want what our better selves would want?

The Policy: S-Risk Scenarios - Worse Than Extinction

Most AI risk discussions focus on extinction. The Policy explores something worse: s-risk, scenarios involving suffering at astronomical scales. We survive, but wish we hadn't.

Post-ASI Archaeology: When Humanity Becomes a Dataset of Origins

We will not be remembered — we will be indexed. If superintelligence endures beyond us, remembrance shifts from memory to query. Building legacy systems not for nostalgia, but to remain legible in a future where legibility determines what persists.

API Design as Value Imprinting

How API design encodes philosophical values—mutability, explicitness, error handling—shaping how developers think about problems.

On Moral Responsibility: Why Free Will Might Be the Wrong Question

A philosophical essay arguing that moral responsibility may not require free will, and that the question itself may be misframed.

On moral responsibility: a metaphysical examination

On Moral Responsibility: A Metaphysical Examination

A philosophical exploration of free will, determinism, and moral agency. What does it mean to be a moral agent? Can we truly be held responsible for our actions in a deterministic universe?