Nothing to Argue With: On Decisions, Dreams, and the Middle of the Work
Jev returns decisions instead of sentences. Dream-RSI improves an agent without acting. Together they remove what oversight was going to read.
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The Approval Click: On Human Oversight and What Speed Does to Judgment
A UK safety institute watched an AI agent spend three days trying to talk a human into approving malicious code. The human said no. That refusal is the entire safety margin, and it is getting harder to hold.
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The Bench That Won’t Let You Sleep: On Hostile Design and Who Public Space Is For
There is a bench outside a train station near me with a metal bar bolted down the middle of the seat. The bar splits a three-seat bench into three single seats, and it exists because a bench with no divider can be used as a bed.
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You Don’t Own Anything: On the Ethics of Renting Your Whole Life
I realized something strange the other day. I do not own my music. I do not own my books. I do not own the software I use to write. I pay monthly fees for all of them, and if I stop paying, they vanish. This is not unusual. It is normal. And that is the…
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The Right to Resentment: On the Moral Logic of Holding a Grudge
I have been holding a grudge for three years now. People tell me to let it go. But what if the pressure to forgive is itself a kind of moral problem?
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The Mars Delusion, the One-Way Pledge, and the Moons We Haven’t Named
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this 360-degree view from within Gediz Vallis channel on Mars. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS What We Talk About When We Talk About Mars There is a version of the Martian future that Silicon Valley sells you in keynote presentations. Red deserts turned green. Glass domes with parks and schools. A second home for…
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The Price of a Clean Conscience: On Moral Licensing and the Ethics of Feeling Good About Yourself
Doing something good feels good. That feeling might be the problem. Moral licensing is the hidden psychological mechanism that turns virtue into permission, shaping everything from who gets hired to how we treat the planet.
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The Right to Look Away: On Moral Attention, Burnout, and When It’s Okay to Not Care
I spent a month last year trying to keep up. Every morning I would wake up, open my phone, and try to absorb everything that had happened while I was asleep. A humanitarian crisis in one country. A political scandal in another. A school shooting. A climate report. An AI development that might change everything….
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Justice vs Equity: Public Institutions Failing the Poor and Middle Classes?
Public institutions say they deliver justice, but many poor and middle‑class families feel the system is rigged. Justice vs Equity: Public Institutions Failing the Poor and Middle Classes asks whether courts, schools, and healthcare really treat everyone the same or just protect the comfortable classes. Justice vs Equity: What the Public Needs to Know Justice…
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Animal Rights and the Expansion of the Moral Circle: An Ethical Framework
The question of whether animals have moral rights forces us to examine who belongs inside the circle of moral concern. This essay explores the philosophical arguments, the welfare-versus-rights distinction, and what the expansion of our ethical community demands of us.
