# Ethics of technology
**URL:** https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875
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**Created:** [January 9, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875 "2024-01-09T14:35:46Z")
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875/1 "2024-01-09T14:35:47Z")
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“Those who think to win the world by doing something to it, I see them come to grief. For the world is a sacred object. Nothing is to be done to it. To do anything to it is to damage it. To seize it is to lose it.” – [Lao Tzu](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/1997-tao-te-ching/2972)
[newsletter] [Reboot](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/reboot-and-kernel/3242)
[blog] [Cory Doctorow’s blog](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/cory-doctorows-blog/4022)
[article, 1949] [Why socialism?](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/1949-why-socialism/2920)
[story, 1973] [The ones who walk away from Omelas](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/1973-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/2936)
[book, 1973] [Tools for conviviality](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/1973-tools-for-conviviality/4037)
[article, 2002] [Selective moral disengagement in the exercise of moral agency](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2002-selective-moral-disengagement-in-the-exercise-of-moral-agency/2949)
[book, 2004] [A hacker manifesto](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2004-a-hacker-manifesto/5559)
[article, 2015] [Indifferent by nature](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2015-indifferent-by-nature/2989)
[article, 2015] [The dehumanizing myth of meritocracy](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2015-the-dehumanizing-myth-of-the-meritocracy/3793)
[book, 2016] [Weapons of math destruction](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2016-weapons-of-math-destruction/3174)
[article, 2018] [Evolutionary origins of morality](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2018-evolutionary-origins-of-morality/4559)
[article, 2023] [Make ethereum cypherpunk again](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2023-make-ethereum-cypherpunk-again/2922/1)
[journal, 2024] [A hacker manifesto at twenty](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/e-flux/5555/2)
[video, 2025] [A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2025-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet/5466)
# Piracy
[article, 2017] [Gold, green, and black open access](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2017-gold-green-and-black-open-access/5703)
[article, 2025] [The tokenomics of open science](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2025-the-tokenomics-for-open-science/5705)
[article, 2026] [Sci-Hub as a type of red open access](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2026-sci-hub-as-a-type-of-red-open-access/5704)
# Posthuman
[book, 2013] [The posthuman](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2013-the-posthuman/4542)
[article, 2014] [The labor of the inhuman](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2014-the-labor-of-the-inhuman/2948)
[video, 2017] [The posthuman crash course](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/2017-the-posthuman-crash-course/4030)
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875/2 "2024-03-25T14:46:11Z")
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875/3 "2024-01-28T23:32:51Z")
> **[How “post-rationalism” is reshaping tech culture](https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/rational-magic)**
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> Tara Isabella Burton on Silicon Valley’s Endarkenment
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 4:25am UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875/4 "2024-04-01T04:25:50Z")
> **[The Techno-Optimist Manifesto](https://pmarca.substack.com/p/the-techno-optimist-manifesto)**
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> “You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875/5 "2024-06-30T14:45:13Z")
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875/6 "2024-08-29T15:19:18Z")
> **[Playing With Guns (and Phones) | ARENA](https://arenamag.com/2024/07/31/playing-with-guns-and-phones/)**
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> The great phone debate, and what it means to love and understand a powerful technology.
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875/7 "2024-08-29T20:49:16Z")
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875/8 "2024-09-28T14:52:16Z")
False dichotomies:
> **[At a Glance\_ False Dichotomies.pdf](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q4dxCH89CUhWVG3-2t8RKRkCcw_NeCZI/view)**
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> Google Drive file.
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875/9 "2024-10-31T04:37:16Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k)
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### Author:  [@guayabyte](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/guayabyte)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2024, 8:20am UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/ethics-of-technology/2875/10 "2024-11-17T08:20:58Z")
> **[The Weaponization of Things: Israel’s Techno-Violence, A Litmus Test for...](https://www.techpolicy.press/the-weaponization-of-things-israels-technoviolence-a-litmus-test-for-technologists/)**
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> This moment should be a massive wake-up call for anyone doing tech and society work, writes Afsaneh Rigot.