Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Ethics — moral philosophy — what is owed, permitted or good — including applied ethics of technology and institutions (group: philosophy).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| TERM-012 | cross-scale concordance | A graded relational property of how an encompassing agent’s governing organization stands to the capacities of its constituents and dependencies (A249). Defined at least five ways in the exchange; set aside as future work. | Deferred |
| TERM-059 | relational normative realism, as frame-, order-, scale- and perspective-relative normative realism: the position that a normative judgment indexed to a frame, an organizational or reflective order, a scale, a perspective and a standard is correct or incorrect whatever the judge prefers, and that which frames, perspectives and standards are admissible is itself constrained, the second of which the record has not established | The owner’s name, U18 of the exchange of 2026-10-17: “so maybe something like a frame/order/scale/perspectival-relative normative realism?” A18 proposed “relational normative realism” as the short name and the owner’s wording “as its explicit technical characterization”, and split “order” into organizational and reflective order. The term names the position. It does not assert it. In particular its third condition, constraints on admissible perspectives, is unmet: without it the position is conditional objectivity, not realism about the standards themselves. The indexing is CLAIM-363’s thesis, and the realism about standards is QUESTION-129’s open question. | Active |
| TERM-081 | moral worth, and which sense: intrinsic moral value, status-based dignity, or moral merit | The owner’s, U12 of the exchange of 2026-10-26. A12 would not let “moral worth” carry several meanings: the value a being has in itself, the respect owed to it by its status, and the praiseworthiness of its conduct. They come apart: blameworthy conduct does not lessen the respect owed, and an organization can produce valuable outcomes without a person’s standing. Standing itself is TERM-083. Proposed. | Proposed |
| TERM-083 v2 | moral standing: being owed moral consideration directly, for one’s own sake, and not only for one’s effects on others | The owner’s, U12 of the exchange of 2026-10-26. A12 split “moral worth” into this and a sense map (TERM-081). A claim of standing names its bearer, the interests or claims in question, the ground of standing and what follows. It does not entail consciousness as its only ground, collective agency, legal personhood or moral responsibility, and keeps moral patients apart from moral agents. Used at once by the Chagos case: the displaced are owed consideration whether or not they form one agent. Proposed. | Proposed |