Cor­rupted Hardware

Our brains do not always allow us to act the way we should. Corrupted hardware refers to those behaviors and thoughts that act for ancestrally relevant purposes rather than for stated moralities and preferences.

Blog posts

• Why Does Power Corrupt?

• Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans)

• Which Parts are “Me”?

• The Curse of Identity by Kaj Sotala

• Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief by Anna Salamon

See also

• Akrasia

• Ethical injunction

• Evolutionary psychology, adaptation executers

• Signaling