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Charismatic Systems: Legitimacy After the Human
“Charismatic systems” replace persuasion with smoothness. From social media to AI ethics dashboards, design now governs through affect. This essay…
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Kanav Jain
Who Has the Right to Sound Kind?
The real danger isn't that AI is cold and inhuman; it's that it's becoming perfectly, fluently "kind." "Counterfeit tenderness" is a new form of moral…
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Kanav Jain
When Conscience Runs Out of Time: Toward an Ethics of Maintenance
Empathy can’t scale, and conscience can’t keep up. This essay introduces Ethotechnics, a framework for embedding moral capacity directly into code…
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Kanav Jain
The Pyrrhic Condition
Hospitals, platforms, universities, and economies all improve the metrics that define success while quietly eroding the conditions that make those…
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Kanav Jain
Per What? The Denominator Is the Doctrine
The moral geometry of measurement, and how to read the metrics that lie without lying.
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Kanav Jain
Systems That Make Decency Sustainable
We’ve measured morality by character for too long. The Architecture of Goodness argues that ethics must be designed, not preached, replacing heroism…
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Kanav Jain
Why we need fewer heroes
When a society, an institution, or even a piece of software continually produces heroes, it offers clear evidence of a broken architecture.
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Kanav Jain
Survival Isn't Proof of Worth
Longevity isn’t virtue. The systems that last the longest often do so by pushing their stress onto others. This is how survival turns into capture.
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Kanav Jain
​The Right to Fuck Up
We replaced repair with disposal. It’s time to build a more human world.
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Kanav Jain
Sanctiphagy
A good system shouldn’t need saints. It should metabolize harm before someone has to transcend it.
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Kanav Jain
Stricter in Love Than in Law
Why do we grill our loved ones harder than corporations or governments? Stricter in Love Than in Law reveals how modern institutions turn excuses into…
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Kanav Jain
Career Ladders Are Just Filters
Feeling stuck or hollow in your career? This essay explains why the "career ladder" is a myth and a hidden "filter" rewards conformity over merit. A new…
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Kanav Jain
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