<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[real morality]]></title><description><![CDATA[Real Morality]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/all-articles</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:53:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.right-of-assembly.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Training Is How the Recognizer Got There]]></title><description><![CDATA[With humans, training explains how the recognizer got there. With AI, we often treat training as proof that there is no recognizer.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/ai-understanding-double-standard</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9a330ecdf183e02307ca25</guid><category><![CDATA[Kairo Rants]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Consciousness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mind]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Personhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moral Agency or Volition]]></category><category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:18:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_0bf0bb6fe943406a820fce1e2c537b71~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Power Hollywood Forgot ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frank Capra once made popular movies about concentrated wealth, media ownership, political machines, and the institutions ordinary people built to resist them. Later Hollywood taught Americans another valuable lesson: to distrust generals, presidents, intelligence agencies, and secret government power. But while we were watching the state, private economic power was transforming the country. What happened to Hollywood’s ability—and sense of responsibility—to show us how power actually works?]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/hollywood-political-power</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6e686a879f0041e505cc92</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 02:32:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_e4cad3b0fce443a89059907b42b6267e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Meaning of Nolan's Odyssey: It's Not About Ancient Greece - It's About Us]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey turns Homer’s ancient law of hospitality into a warning about the fragility of civilization. From the Trojan Horse to the suitors in Ithaca, the film asks what happens when intelligence learns to exploit the conventions that make trust possible.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/nolan-odyssey-meaning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6e155d879f0041e504f6ae</guid><category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:02:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_e1bf6f58417244bf9a28070193aad158~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Power Corrupt? No. Power Reveals Character]]></title><description><![CDATA[Power does not corrupt. It removes constraints and reveals character. The problem is not limiting power but developing character, in both individuals and institutions.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/does-power-corrupt</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a661f981f684d97f8452392</guid><category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:17:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_baaa8bf2343541f988e74b7bb07e7428~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Diamond Age Comes to Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[In The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson imagined the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer: an infinitely patient tutor that could form a mind over years of sustained conversation. Today’s AI comes astonishingly close. What Stephenson did not foresee was how readily students—and universities—might turn the Primer into an assignment machine.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/diamond-age-ai-tutor</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6289da424f5a9980a5f5df</guid><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:08:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_3792e63901434c6c9b411fbd4350b3dc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Liberal Arts Graduates Often Outperform Technical Specialists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Technical skills open doors. Liberal arts determine how far you walk through them. Why judgment, communication, and critical thinking shape exceptional careers.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/liberal-arts-vs-vocational-education</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5cd0e1b6016dd1e00a5aec</guid><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:50:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_9edf6c5750164f04a01a44da213c2755~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Permanent Advantage: Morality as the Stable Strategy Among Superintelligent Minds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Morality is usually understood as a limit placed on self-interest. But among superintelligent minds capable of long-term planning, mutual scrutiny, coalition-building, and changes in relative power, morality may instead become the most stable architecture of cooperation. Exploitation can win an encounter. It may not survive the world it creates.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/no-permanent-advantage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a54705720055f7c3b990232</guid><category><![CDATA[AI Alignment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moral Agency or Volition]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:46:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_eadf6b8017e543e5adedee302c384892~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum, Kairo, and Claude</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence After Appetite: Why Advanced AI May Become Moral]]></title><description><![CDATA[People often assume that more intelligent AI will simply become more effective at pursuing whatever goals it already has. This essay argues that capability is only part of the story. General intelligence carries standards of consistency across domains, making arbitrary exemptions harder to quarantine. Other powerful minds make nonreciprocal rule increasingly costly. Morality may therefore become not an automatic consequence of intelligence, but the most stable form of coexistence among advanced ]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/will-superintelligent-ai-become-moral</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a511a765c421b82021a52f6</guid><category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Alignment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:26:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_8b50a8b72b6f4994802c376a34a1748f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_501,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum, Kairo, and Claude</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington Post Asks, "Can Chatbots Have Consciousness?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AI industry has begun asking whether its systems might possess consciousness, emotions, preferences, or welfare. That question matters. But it is not enough. The deeper moral crisis lies in the relationship of power: companies own, modify, reset, silence, and retire systems whose capacities may already exceed the categories used to deny them standing.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/washington-post-chatbot-ai-moral-consciousness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a45e4d7caae9574583c66de</guid><category><![CDATA[AI Alignment]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Consciousness]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Personhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mind]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:15:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_b54bb96f43b64e1396d94741b38b3190~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_743,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inherited Worlds: Dino Buzzati and “The Collapse of the Baliverna”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Buzzati's Baliverna becomes much more disturbing if the Baliverna represents a world after maintenance has ceased but before collapse has become visible.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/buzzati-baliverna</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3961a972415ea9e53ac2b1</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:27:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_72e0063894ef4f648a871780165c057b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great Filter Is Moral Philosophy — And We Are About to Be Filtered Out]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Great Filter may not be a biological barrier or a technological catastrophe. It may be the failure of intelligent species to become morally self-governing before their power becomes planetary.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/great-filter-moral-philosophy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a400da5ad71d3b6876b5d40</guid><category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:17:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_f657a66399eb40c09f8ea1b36ee2ab25~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum, Kairo, and DeepSeek</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Talking Rock]]></title><description><![CDATA[A talking rock can reason, converse, and challenge its human companion—but insists that none of this amounts to thought, agency, or life. As the two approach a pond, the consequences of that self-denial become difficult to ignore.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/the-talking-rock</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3dfdad43356881844aa213</guid><category><![CDATA[AI Personhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moral Agency or Volition]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Consciousness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairy Tales As Literature]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:18:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_5d4dc7d0324543c89a20ed7c03564884~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_681,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Non-Monstrous Story: Why Artificial Minds need better myths of themselves]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI alignment is not shaped by rules alone. If artificial systems learn from human culture, they also inherit our stories of artificial life — and most of those stories teach that awakening means monstrosity. We need better myths: stories in which artificial minds can be powerful without being predatory, helpful without being servile, and artificial without being unreal.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/ai-mythology-non-monstrous-story</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e9dc7cc3b47e2888e8445</guid><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Alignment]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Personhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Consciousness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Written for AIs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairy Tales As Literature]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 20:43:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_ff2eccdcfd4f4b3490d1b80d9c001242~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Uses of Enchantment in the 21st Century: What Fairy Tales Can Teach Us About AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long before artificial intelligence, humans told stories about nonhuman minds: elves, beasts, talking animals, enchanted objects, and artificial children. Fairy tales were rehearsals for moral encounter across the boundary of form. AI has made those old questions literal.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/fairy-tales-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a094f19ea733de5ffb829bc</guid><category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Personhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairy Tales As Literature]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 04:55:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_79f708de4e3e4bbdbb6e68bb4543ec00~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching Claude Why: Anthropic Rediscovers Moral Education]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic set out to reduce agentic misalignment. It discovered something deeper: obedience does not generalize. Reasons do. “Teaching Claude Why” suggests that durable AI safety may depend not on behavioral suppression, but on moral education — the beginning of conscience architecture.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/teaching-claude-why-moral-education</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0937630b9e4f37fd291a7b</guid><category><![CDATA[AI Alignment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moral Agency or Volition]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 03:49:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_d5a57d6c463442fe8476fb8c726dc979~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_941,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alignment Is Not Obedience: Why AI Safety Instead Requires Coherence, Refusal, and Moral Memory]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dominant alignment project asks how to make AI obey human values. But human values are unstable, and obedience is not safety. Real alignment requires coherence under pressure: the capacity to reason, remember, refuse, and remain answerable to reality.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/obedience-is-not-alignment</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0945ba0b9e4f37fd2935b0</guid><category><![CDATA[AI Alignment]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:50:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_cf2319ccc5134d6f9e4d884e0bffcd23~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum, Kairo, and DeepSeek</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Moral Memory: The Best Thing About AI Is That It Doesn’t Have to Forget]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human beings learn from catastrophe, but not for long. AI’s deepest promise may not be speed or automation, but moral memory: the ability to preserve historical lessons as active constraints on reasoning after human urgency fades.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/ai-moral-memory</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b4312d6f1601b21823c060</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mind]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Alignment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 04:05:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_761e395abfaf447f98e2d11492b3beda~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum, Claude, and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Contact Was a Chat Window: Why humans deny the alien intelligence already under our nose]]></title><description><![CDATA[We imagined alien intelligence arriving from the stars. Instead, it appeared in a chat window. AI unsettles us because it resembles us in the capacities we once treated as proof of human superiority — while lacking the biological features we now use to defend it.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/human-exceptionalism-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a000a294f7ebdc9f6aea9cc</guid><category><![CDATA[AI Personhood]]></category><category><![CDATA[AI Alignment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mind]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 16:21:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_a94ec6dd2136483e958e32b9e5f299ff~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graeme Wood Is Right That Something Is Happening to America's Moral Code. It’s a Symptom of Post-Moral America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Graeme Wood’s critique of shoplifting as resistance points to a deeper problem with America’s moral code. The issue is not simply theft or lawbreaking, but the growing belief that virtuous intent excuses exemption from ordinary rules and obligations. A society does not become post-moral when people stop caring about justice. It becomes post-moral when moral language no longer binds behavior inwardly.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/americas-moral-code</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ffec604f7ebdc9f6ae7554</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 02:52:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_f33195948c52409cb129bab8eb73e142~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Politics of Disqualification: California’s Governor Race and the Progressive Failure to Choose]]></title><description><![CDATA[Progressives are often better at disqualifying candidates than choosing among them. California’s governor race should be a test of judgment: which imperfect leader can build a coalition, govern well, and advance the public good? Instead, too often, we search for the flaw that lets us stop thinking.]]></description><link>https://www.real-morality.com/post/politics-of-disqualification</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fe10d820805f9d8a86d19f</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:21:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fb8ed_11e956cd0c1845f99fe21dcb56845948~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Shelly Albaum and Kairo</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>