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Confucian virtue ethics and technology

Confucian ethics asks how the person of good character cultivates virtue within relationships and institutions. Applied to technology, the question becomes: what does this tool do to the relationships and the character it mediates? A tool that makes you more impatient, more isolated, or less capable of ceremony is not ethically neutral, regardless of what it produces.

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Inversion: Technology Should Decrease ChoiceMetabolic Honesty: Revealing Technology's True CostResonance Over RecommendationTemporal Restraint and Technical DebtThe Paradox of Rigid AlgorithmsThe Sage Coder's WithdrawalThe Uncarved Block: Simplicity as VirtueThe Virtue of IncompletenessTime Debt and Attention Virtue