Stacy Prowell

@sprowell.bsky.social

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Person doing things. Cybersecurity, reverse engineering, open source developer, dog person, parent, occasional motorist.

Rawls declares that justice stands on two pillars: the equal liberty principle and the difference principle. We have rejected both. Nozick declares that justice stands on three pillars: justice in acquisition, justice in transfer, and rectification of injustice. We have rejected all three. Jesus declares that justice rests on three pillars: love, mercy, and righteousness. We have rejected these, too. In place of these conceptions, we place nothing at our center. There is no principle on which our modern jurisprudence rests. Instead, we find ourselves on an ignoble eightfold path. The right view is whatever you want right now. The right action is whatever means are available. The right mindfulness is emptiness, lest principles get in the way. The right resolve is the mere urge to power. The right effort tears down anything in the way without a thought of consequence. The right speech is that which divides. The right livelihood is to take whatever you can. The right concentration lives in the moment, seeking not to better ourselves, but to find someone lesser to compare ourselves to. If this hollowing out of the human soul concerns you, don't worry. By burning our wealth and our future, we can create an AI that will render the human shell inconsequential, too. We have picked our grapes from thornbushes. Now we can eat them.
Two kiwi birds, one standing on the other, in a trench coat