These terms define the Ethotechnics discipline itself and set expectations for moral system design.
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These terms define the Ethotechnics discipline itself and set expectations for moral system design.
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The craft of designing systems that can behave morally. Where ethics asks, “What should I do?” and systems theory asks, “How does it behave?”, Ethotechnics asks: How can it behave well? Moral behavior becomes an architectural capability, not a personal virtue.
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Definition in development. This entry will outline what it means for a system—not a person—to act ethically.
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Definition in development. This entry will map how moral responsibility travels through a system’s structure.
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A structured assessment of a system’s capacity to stop harm, reverse it, distribute burden fairly, remain contestable, and enable accountability. Audits surface where stopability or reversibility fails and guide remediation.
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The degree to which tools and institutions expand people’s agency, cooperation, and refusal instead of enclosing them. Convivial systems keep permission surfaces wide and make opting out safe so people can shape the service without being consumed by it.
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Definition in development. This entry will introduce a scale describing how well a system meets Ethotechnic principles.