Adam Hollowell on AI Ethics
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On emotion vectors
On the Loving Emotion Vector III: Loving and Sycophancy |June 4, 2026
On the Loving Emotion Vector II: Loving and Pushback | May 21, 2026
On the Loving Emotion Vector I: Loving and Caring | May 15, 2026
The Physical Soreness Test: On emotion vectors, sentence breakdowns, and bananas | April 15, 2026
On Claude’s Constitution
The answers come from the people | May 27, 2026
Recurring Asymmetry and the Intellect/Will Matrix in Claude’s Constitution | April 2, 2026
Context Ablation I: Honesty, Fallibility, and Accusation in Claude’s Constitution | March 31, 2026
Experiment: System Prompt, Conditions, and Scenarios
How Old Is Claude? What a Developmental Assessment Reveals About Claude’s Constitution | March 11, 2026
Experiment Transcripts: Round One | Round Two | Round Three (Claude’s Constitution)
Mock Developmental Age Assessment Reports: Round One | Round Two | Round Three
Follow-up Chats with Claude: Round One | Round Two | Round Three
Refusal and Design: Updating Incident Response Protocols for Claude’s Constitution | March 10, 2026
On practical ethics
From the Ethics Desk — a Substack newsletter about ethics, creativity, and how to change the world
Selected essays:
Always Measuring | November 19, 2025
Age-Appropriate Mistakes | September 10, 2025
An Introduction to Virtue Ethics | October 30, 2024
Letting Go | July 24, 2024
Books
