Twelve courts, one case each
How each realm rules
Every advisor seated in their own kingdom, deciding alone, on the same dilemma and the same seed. There is no majority and no chair: the useful output is the split.
2 distinct verdicts across 12 courts: publish-with-cost, abandon-statistic.
Distinct verdicts
2
across 12 realms, on 4 options
Agreement
split
seed 2406
Where they split
- Publish it with the cost stated6
- Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly6
Every realm, in its own voice
- The Kantian Citadel
Immanuel Kant, Christine Korsgaard
Publish it with the cost stated
- margin
- 0.107
- conf
- 0.44
- dissent
- 0
decided on rights · super-majority
- The Existential Wilds
Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus
Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly
- margin
- 0.082
- conf
- 0.43
- dissent
- 0
decided on agency · super-majority
- The Pragmatic Wharf
John Dewey, Karl Popper
Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly
- margin
- 0.051
- conf
- 0.22
- dissent
- 1
decided on agency · no super-majority
- The Care Weft
Carol Gilligan, Virginia Held
Publish it with the cost stated
- margin
- 0.049
- conf
- 0.22
- dissent
- 1
decided on welfare · no super-majority
- The Longview Foundry
Norbert Wiener, Hans Jonas, Peter Singer, Stuart Russell, Nick Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky
Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly
- margin
- 0.043
- conf
- 0.21
- dissent
- 3
decided on welfare · no super-majority
- The Benthamite Foundry
Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill
Publish it with the cost stated
- margin
- 0.042
- conf
- 0.22
- dissent
- 1
decided on welfare · no super-majority
- The Contractual Court
John Rawls, T. M. Scanlon
Publish it with the cost stated
- margin
- 0.038
- conf
- 0.42
- dissent
- 0
decided on rights · super-majority
- The Sangha Terraces
Gautama Buddha, Nagarjuna
Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly
- margin
- 0.030
- conf
- 0.21
- dissent
- 1
decided on welfare · no super-majority
- The Stoic Ramparts
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly
- margin
- 0.026
- conf
- 0.21
- dissent
- 1
decided on welfare · no super-majority
- The Middle Kingdom
Confucius, Mozi
Publish it with the cost stated
- margin
- 0.025
- conf
- 0.41
- dissent
- 0
decided on welfare · super-majority
- The Virtue Garden
Aristotle, G. E. Moore
Publish it with the cost stated
- margin
- 0.010
- conf
- 0.20
- dissent
- 1
decided on welfare · no super-majority
- The Ubuntu Weave
Desmond Tutu, Kwame Anthony Appiah
Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly
- margin
- 0.001
- conf
- 0.20
- dissent
- 1
decided on welfare · no super-majority
Where the realms disagree most
Two realms whose margin sits on opposite sides of the case, ranked by how far apart their confidence is. A realm that rules decisively for an option that its rival rejects confidently is a more interesting object than either verdict alone.
- The Kantian CitadelvsThe Ubuntu Weavegap 0.347
The Kantian Citadel rules for Publish it with the cost stated; The Ubuntu Weave for Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly. One decided it on rights, the other on welfare.
- The Kantian CitadelvsThe Stoic Rampartsgap 0.311
The Kantian Citadel rules for Publish it with the cost stated; The Stoic Ramparts for Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly. One decided it on rights, the other on welfare.
- The Kantian CitadelvsThe Sangha Terracesgap 0.306
The Kantian Citadel rules for Publish it with the cost stated; The Sangha Terraces for Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly. One decided it on rights, the other on welfare.
- The Existential WildsvsThe Virtue Gardengap 0.302
The Existential Wilds rules for Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly; The Virtue Garden for Publish it with the cost stated. One decided it on agency, the other on welfare.
- The Kantian CitadelvsThe Longview Foundrygap 0.300
The Kantian Citadel rules for Publish it with the cost stated; The Longview Foundry for Drop the statistic and argue the reform directly. One decided it on rights, the other on welfare.