Moral code: an open-source project to create the Linux of morality

Written by Tony McLaughlin

General purpose technologies can be used for good or ill, for serious or frivolous purposes. The internet is the home to cat videos and the sum total of human knowledge. The crypto world has more than its fair share of memecoins and sh*tcoins, which some dismiss and others consider a deep reflection of the global attention economy. The roots of crypto are ideologically purist. The suggestion in this article to use open-source methods and a DAO to build a secular moral code returns to these roots and attempts to apply new technology to a higher purpose. The eye of the global attention economy craves instant gratification and is ever seeking. We must ask ourselves, for what?

Moral choice architecture

It is my observation and experience that many people experience doubts about their traditional religious belief system and then end up in an existential dead end. Some are attracted to the militant atheism of Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens and others go to the far extreme of nihilism…