Computing Morality
A Computer Scientist's Approach Ethics and Economics
1st Edition
Published on 18. March 2022
208 pages
978-1-7361807-1-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book uses powerful concepts borrowed from computer science and a myriad of real-world examples to help the reader think clearly and logically in our politically-polarized environment. Principles of computer science are used to build an all-encompassing ethical and economic framework for how humans can be productive, live decently, and protect their freedoms. Because it is paramount to create systems free from any contradiction in the realm of computer science, concepts from this field are key to developing consistent ethical models required in our complex, modern economy. Briefly addressing currently accepted policies as examples of how freedoms can be trampled when political systems disregard the ethics they exist to protect... the book stresses the importance of thinking rigorously and consistently in all manners of ethics and economics, and why it is crucial to cherish and protect our liberties and freedoms.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Part I: Creating an Ethical Mental Model from Scratch
- Laying the Groundwork
- Putting It All Together
- Well-Intentioned (but Contradictory) Socialist Attempts to Expand on This Moral System
- Part II: Creating an Economic Mental Model: Problems of the World and How We Overcome Them
- The Importance of a Mental Model
- The Fundamental Problem
- The Fundamental Solution
- Putting the "Capital" in "Capitalism"
- The Power of Capital for the Common Person
- We Are All Capitalists
- Tying Spending, Savings, Consumption, and Capital Together
- Why You Cannot Spend Your Way Out of Problems
- How Do We Escape Poverty?
- Computer Science Topic #8: The Deadly Exponential Function
- A Silver Lining-The Power of Capital
- The Fundamental Solution Restated
- The Real Question
- Injection of Ethics Into Our Economic System
- Part III: Our Model in Action
- Farmer Joe in Grinding and Abject Poverty
- Joe's Angels and Demons
- The Great Escape
- Meet Farmer Bob
- The Great Escape: Part II
- Part IV: Advanced Topics and Common Misconceptions
- The Force of Nature vs. the Force of Man
- Price Controls on Necessities
- Direct Government Provision of Necessities
- Misunderstanding the Magic Formula
- Labor Is an Input to Production and Is Not the Same as Ownership
- More Spending (and Consumption) Is Not Always Good
- Capitalism Is a Big Value Voting Machine
- Cronyism Is Not Capitalism
- The Link Between Government Spending and Government Control
- Spending Your Way Out of Problems, Revisited
- Do We Need a Reset of Capital Allocation?
- The Ethical and Practical Issue With Wealth Transfers
- Part V: The Intersection of Politics, Economics, the Laws of Nature, and Ethics
- Laws of Nature, Moral Systems, and Economic Systems
- A Political System Should Rely on a Moral System-and Not the Other Way Around
- Part VI: Practical Economics and Ethics
- Weakness #1: Free Markets Cannot Enforce Laws and Prevent the Breaching of Our Axiomatic System
- Weakness #2: Inability to Provide Public Goods
- Weakness #3: Negative and Positive Externalities
- Weakness #4: Monopolies
- Part VII: Final Thoughts
- Sources
- About the Author
- Back Cover
