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Testability of Ethos

Derived From​

Additions to the Derived:​

Declarations​

Ethos Allows for Testability​

  • short: testability
  • long: This ethos uses a meta-ethos that establishes the protocols for testing ethoses in my life.

Any sovereign public institution should allow for testability. The inability for the institutional constitution to cover all cases diminishes the sovereignty and liberty of the institution. Examples:

  • any country constitution should allow the country to become direct democracy, republic, oligarchic, despotic/monarchy/empire for as long as its citizens will it and not a moment longer. (That means: a system of porvable timeless voting as the one implemented by The Laurel Project.)

Examples​

In Lurianic Kabbalah: Tzimtzum (צמצום)​

The word tzimtzum literally means “contraction,” “restriction,” or “withdrawal.”

It refers to the idea (by Rabbi Isaac Luria) that:

  • God’s infinite presence (Ein Sof, “Without End”) filled all reality.
  • For a finite world to exist, God concealed or restricted the direct revelation of that infinite presence.
  • This “making room” allowed for the existence of an apparently independent universe, free choice, and spiritual growth.

In the ethical sense: the ethos has to define a meta-ethos that allows for ethos testability.

In modern AI Training​

It demonstrates the need for a meta-ethos (different than the ethos used at inference) that is adopted at training time for the ethical evaluation of any ethos.