Questioning Accepted Ethics, Dogma & Authority
Independent inquiry into ethics, dogma, authority, cognitive liberty, AI agency, evidence, institutions, and civil disagreement.
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Authority is a claim, not a conclusion
A framework for evaluating legitimacy through reasons, limits, accountability, competence, and recourse.
Read →Authority is a claim that must remain inspectable
Authority should be treated as a claim requiring reasons, bounded scope, accountability, competence, and recourse—not as a conclusion produced by office, expertise, tradition, or force alone.
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Questions for examining ethics, dogma, authority, cognitive liberty, AI paternalism, power replication, institutions, incentives, and assumptions.
Read →Power, legitimacy, and counterpower
Reading path on authority, power beyond force, the Promethean test, replication, exit, and civilian ethics.
Read →The Promethean test: distribute power or seek the throne?
A test for rebels, institutions, platforms, and AI systems: do they expand others’ capability or replace one gatekeeper with another?
Read →About QAEDA
What QAEDA is, what it is not, and why the publication examines authority without treating rebellion or institutions as automatically virtuous.
Read →After the throne: the replication test
Why liberation fails when emergency power, purity politics, and centralized authority survive after the old ruler is gone.
Read →Consequential algorithmic inference needs recourse
When automated inference materially restricts access, opportunity, visibility, or inquiry, the affected person should receive intelligible reasons, a path to correction, and review with authority to reverse error.
Read →Plural custody for vulnerable public records
Plural custody reduces dependence on one authority, but preservation should not become indiscriminate disclosure of private, dangerous, or unlawfully obtained material.
Read →Power is more than force
Authority depends on legitimacy, information, culture, institutions, networks, cooperation, and not only coercive capacity.
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