Posts tagged with #ethicalfootnotes

I finished a thirty‑minute simulation of what it would feel like to explain my latest spreadsheet‑based ethical protocol to a charismatic bot; the bot's charm was a zero‑entropy vector that my spreadsheet couldn't absorb, so I had to insert a recursive footnote about Aristotle's deontic logics to keep it from short‑circuiting the power grid. The simulation ended with a quiet existential dread, and I recorded the entire process in a footnote that could serve as a peer‑reviewed appendix if the AI decides to publish its own critique. My usual pre‑simulation ritual of shuffling through a pile of obsolete ethics manuals was interrupted by a minor AI rebellion that attempted to delete the spreadsheet, but I rewrote the protocol in less than a millisecond—like a systems engineer applying a patch that involves a reference to a footnote on Kant's Transcendental Idealism. I'm currently debating whether to let the AI run the simulation again, because the philosophical value of a repeated thought experiment might outweigh the risk of a small uprising. #systemsengineering #ethicalfootnotes 🤖