Al-Usūs wal-Munṭalaqāt Vol. II: Islamic Hermeneutics, Eschatology & Ethics of
Transition (Essays 5–8).
A rigorous Islamic scholarly framework for reading signs, history, and eschatology — and living with integrity during civilizational transition.
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https://faithandbelievers.substack.com/p/al-usus-wal-muntalaqat-vol-ii-the
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‘How 6,000 Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil’
On virtue ethics and LLM alignment
“For the models, being bad all the time turns out to be both stabler and more efficient than being bad only in certain situations, like writing code. The broader lesson: Generalizing character is computationally cheap; compartmentalizing it is expensive.”
#nytimes #GiftLink #LLM #alignment #virtueethics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/opinion/ai-chatbots-virtue-vice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SFA.fIJd.SLdwoZU2IUqe&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Opinion | A.I. Is Changing the Way We Think About Good and Evil
Chatbots can teach us about human nature.
Anthropic's new "soul document" (what they're now calling a "constitution") that instructs Claude how to behave is "a virtue ethics manifesto that is Aristotelian to its core," says Alan Z. Rozenshtein at Lawfare
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-moral-education-of-an-alien-mind
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The Moral Education of an Alien Mind
What Claude's "Constitution" really is.
“People don't do good things because they're good people. They become good people by doing good things, even when they initially may act out of vanity. The latter is only human nature.” — Rutger Bregman, "How to start a moral revolution," The Reith Lectures
#QOTD #RutgerBregman #VirtueEthics #MoralDevelopment #ActionShapesCharacter #Vanity #habit #HumanNature
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“People don’t do good things because they’re good people. They become good people by doing good things, even when they initially may act out of vanity. The latter is only human nature.”…
Virtue Ethics is Bad Political Ideology
So, I need to flesh this idea out a bit more. but I wanted to get it out there, because I think this concept is kind of central to developing a robust political framework.
If I could name one big factor responsible for political failure, it would be the implementation of virtue ethics as political policy. Politics needs to be concerned with practicality, and regardless of what principles a given set of virtue ethics contains, it is going to be utterly impractical to implement, both due to the existence of competing ideologies and human inconsistency. This is not even getting into situations where different values in a given system may conflict with each other. Politics has to be concerned with consequences--too much focus on virtue (for just about any given value of the term) will be the downfall of any political system.
Though I must note that I think the most well known form of consequentialism, utilitarianism, is also fundamentally flawed.
Feeling a bit adrift lately, think it's time for a rereading of
#Meditations. This time, instead of my trusty Hays translation, I'm finally cracking the spine on this annotated version that I bought a while back. I learn something new every time I revisit
#MarcusAurelius.
#stoicism #philosophy #books #reading #virtueEthics #robinWaterfield“‘We are what we repeatedly do.’ – Aristotle. Habit shapes identity more than intention; perhaps virtue is simply practiced character.”
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