Topic
ethics
7 essays follow this thread across the codex.
- 01 Mythology · June 2026 · 14 min
The Philosophy of the Mahabharata and Ramayana: When Doing Right Isn’t Simple
Two Sanskrit epics refuse the consolation that right action is ever clean — and in that refusal lies their unbearable, enduring truth about duty, truth, and the cornered self.
- 02 Literature · June 2026 · 8 min
Why Reading a Convincing Villain Is a Moral Education
A convincing monster lends you his appetite for a few pages, and that borrowed wanting, dangerous as it is, may be the one moral education a reader cannot get any other way.
- 03 Mathematics · June 2026 · 7 min
The “Useless” Math That Now Guards Every Secret on Earth
G. H. Hardy prized number theory precisely because no one could use it. He died in 1947 certain it would never serve war or commerce. Thirty years later it became the cryptography guarding nearly every secret on earth.
- 04 Philosophy · June 2026 · 9 min
What Do We Owe the Dead and the Unborn?
Duty seems to need a face that can demand repayment — yet our deepest obligations run to the dead and the unborn, who can neither thank us nor sue us. What survives when reciprocity gives out.
- 05 Philosophy · June 2026 · 9 min
Hume’s Is-Ought Problem: The Hidden Leap in Every “Should”
Hume’s guillotine between is and ought, taken up as a working tool rather than a museum piece — a test you can run on every “should” you hear, including your own.
- 06 Technology · June 2026 · 9 min
No Tool Is Neutral: How Objects Quietly Shape Who You Become
Every made thing arrives with a sketch of who you ought to become. The chair, the keyboard, and the feed each draft a different person — and you mistake their opinion for a fact because it is made of plastic and steel.
- 07 Artificial Intelligence · June 2026 · 9 min
AI Alignment: Teaching a Mind to Be Good While Still Building It
On the strange moral position of teaching a mind to be good while it is still being assembled — and why we keep building the conscience into the scaffold before we agree on the values, or understand the system.