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Re:Claude's New Constitution by staticassertion on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:25PM (#46713620)
> A well written book on such a topic would likely make you rich indeed.

Ha. Not really. Moral philosophers write those books all the time, they're not exactly rolling in cash.

Anyone interested in this can read the SEP

Re:Claude's New Constitution by SEJeff on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:10PM (#46713913)
Or Isaac Asimov’s foundation series with what the “psychologists” aka Psychohistorians do.
Re:Claude's New Constitution by HaZeust on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:27PM (#46713643)
Or Ayn Rand. Really no shortage of people who thought they had the answers on this.
Re:Claude's New Constitution by empath75 on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:55PM (#46713832)
I recommend the Principia Discordia.
Re:Claude's New Constitution by grantmuller on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:06PM (#46713885)
Or if you really want it spelled out, Quantum Psychology
Re:Claude's New Constitution by staticassertion on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @10:09PM (#46714797)
The SEP is not really something I'd put next to Ayn Rand. The SEP is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, it's an actual resource, not just pop/ cultural stuff.
Re:Claude's New Constitution by kubb on Thursday January 22, 2026 @02:03AM (#46716131)
Don’t just read one person’s worldview, see what Aristotle, Kant, Rawls, Bentham, Nietzsche had to say about morality.
Re:Claude's New Constitution by vidarh on Thursday January 22, 2026 @03:42AM (#46716683)
The key being "well written", which in this instance needs to be interpreted as being convincing.

People do indeed write contradictory books like this all the time and fail to get traction, because they are not convincing.

Re:Claude's New Constitution by AllegedAlec on Thursday January 22, 2026 @03:57AM (#46716778)
"I disagree with this point of view so it's objectively wrong"