Glossary

Posthumous harm is the philosophical concept that an individual's well-being, reputation, or interests can be damaged or violated even after their death. In the context of AI, this occurs when a deceased person's likeness or data is used in ways they would have opposed, violating their pos

Necrotechnology refers to the suite of digital tools, artificial intelligence, and generative models designed to simulate, recreate, or preserve the personality, voice, appearance, or cognitive traits of deceased individuals.

Noise is the unwanted, random variability in human judgments that should theoretically be identical. First systematically theorized by Daniel Kahneman, noise represents the statistical dispersion of decisions within systems where consistency is expected, such as courtrooms, hospitals, and

Level noise is the structural variability in judgments made by different individuals within the same system when evaluating identical cases, reflecting permanent differences in their personal standards, severity, or baseline outlooks.

Occasion noise is the internal inconsistency of a single decision-maker whose judgments of identical cases vary depending on transient, non-relevant factors such as mood, fatigue, the time of day, or weather conditions.

The pleasure-pain see-saw is a neurobiological metaphor coined by psychiatrist Anna Lembke to describe the homeostatic relationship between reward and suffering in the human brain. Located in overlapping neural regions (primarily the nucleus accumbens), the processing of pleasure and pain

A dopamine deficit state is a chronic neurochemical condition characterized by depleted baseline levels of dopamine and a downregulation of dopamine receptors. This state occurs when the brain's reward pathways are repeatedly overstimulated, forcing the brain's homeostatic mechanisms to ti

The pessimistic meta-induction is an epistemological challenge in the philosophy of science asserting that the historical track record of discarded scientific theories justifies a deep skepticism toward the literal truth of our contemporary scientific models.

Scientific realism is the philosophical stance that the universe exists independently of our minds, and that our best scientific theories provide approximately true descriptions of both observable phenomena and unobservable entities (such as electrons, quarks, and spacetime curvature).

Percussive sublimation, commonly referred to as being 'kicked upstairs,' is an organizational maneuver where an incompetent employee is promoted to a position with a grander title but significantly reduced operational responsibility, effectively neutralizing their capacity to disrupt criti