A collection of five essays and an appendix on moralization, ideology, political violence, and what an impartial observer would want from the human species. Nothing to do with codes, ciphers or cartoons — hence this corner of the board.

Contents

Each piece is a separate post in this forum.

- The Diagnostic Advantage of Moral Anti-Realism
The framework: why a diagnosis built on moral realism cannot see the mechanism it belongs to.
- Adversarial Review: Young and Durwin (2013) and van Zomeren et al. (2011)
An earlier audit of two citations the thesis had misused, and how they were reclassified.
- Applying the Framework: Five Ideologies
White supremacy, anarchism, Marxism, liberalism and white abolitionism, including their theories of free will.
- Domestic Terrorism Through the Diagnostic Lens
The deadliest and most consequential U.S. attacks, the response to them, and prevention.
- After Us: A Deep-Ecological Posthumanism
The case for the abolition of ideology and voluntary human extinction, and the strongest objections.
- Adversarial review and revisions
What the review found and what changed, essay by essay.

A note on reading

Every essay presumes the same three positions without arguing for them: moral anti-realism, impartial altruism as the overriding aim, and Sapolskian determinism. Later essays build on earlier ones. Claims of fact are cited; claims that follow from the presumptions are marked as such. The final essay states a case in the strongest form its defenders would give, then tests it against the strongest objections.

Original PDF: Seeing the Loop — Collected Essays https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SPh9nRO7xiykLht3uzH3jeaR2TLYBw2R/view (59 pages, 834 KB), announced on X https://x.com/VLEAnderson_/status/2112624181762474400. A copy is attached below.

seeing-the-loop-collected-essays.pdf https://conscryption.com/web/content/816/seeing-the-loop-collected-essays.pdf