Wonder what Tom Dougherty would think of this post.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to purchase a weapon now to protect against future potential threats.

Yay, LLM-induced psychosis! Man, the posts and articles of this genre do not stop flowing…

Two surprising discoveries about obedience

Explores the implications of the famous Milgram experiments and a sibling study.

Dougherty is writing books on the ethics of consent and on the rational (in)significance of the fact that we act from a temporal perspective. Among other topics, they have also researched the debate over consequentialism, ethical vagueness and female under-representation in philosophy.

Another one of my favorite contemporary philosophers.

I am a moral philosopher who studies normative power. I write about the power we have to change the moral, legal, and social world through speech acts and other expressions of our will. Consider, for instance: consent, promises, promissory release, offers, and threats. I also work on exploitation…

One of my favorite contemporary philosophers.

In every team and organization important decisions need to be made related to goals, strategy, and allocation of resources. When decisions are announced people make evaluations of the fairness of the decision based on two aspects. First, the outcome of the decision (distributive justice) and second, the process by which the decision was made (procedural justice).

The framework of distributive and procedural justice, apparently due to Tom R. Tyler, seems to be quite useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_R._Tyler

PDF version: https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.mit.edu/dist/3/652/files/2020/06/Sharing-Difficult-Decisions-.pdf

What kind of society do we live in, for this to regress so sharply?

This is a great write-up on how wider and more consistent applications of metadata could be used, abused, neglected, and how ultimately all and none of this ended up happening.

It’s an interesting and prescient time capsule coming from 2001.

This is a really neat knowledge database. Definitely something I hope to use… eventually :P

I really love this article. There’s a lot of nuance, and difficult concessions to pragmatism, that we make in our lives.

It can be hard, but sometimes we really do need to bite bullet for the good of all.

This is a very frank and fascinating time capsule. The themes here are quite prescient for our present and our future.

Really heartfelt piece that cuts through the noise imo. It deals with it quite fairly.

Why does nobody care about anything? The world is full of stuff that could be excellent with just 1% more effort. But people don’t care.

Why does nobody care about anything? The world is full of stuff that could be excellent with just 1% more effort. But people don’t care.

Web review of Ervin

Great intro to choice feminism and where it and common critiques fail.

A very personal, as well ad lucid, depiction of euthanasia.