ai-for-less-suffering
Public thinking on AI deployment toward −suffering. A typed reasoning tool that separates descriptive convergence from normative divergence, and finds coalition bridges (interventions) that do not require conceding the divergence.
node types
hover a pill to isolate that kind in the graph below. hover a graph node to match it back.
nodes
- 🏕️ Camp (15) --- Coherent cluster of held claims.
- ✅ Descriptive claim (279) --- What is.
- 💭 Normative claim (20) --- What should be.
- 📰 Source (103) --- A citable primary document.
- 📁 Evidence (323) --- A source's stance on a claim --- support, contradict, or qualify.
- ⚖️ Intervention (7) --- A proposed action.
scoring layers
- 🔥 Friction layer (5) --- What slows deployment.
- 💀 Harm layer (6) --- A welfare harm to weigh.
- 💔 Suffering layer (5) --- A category of first-person suffering the intervention relieves.
coalition relations
- 🌉 Bridge (13) --- A normative translation from one camp into another.
- 🤝 Convergence (2) --- Camps arriving at the same intervention for different reasons.
- 🕳️ Blindspot (5) --- A camp the operator is under-weighting.
the graph
worked example
What the site does, shown against a real claim currently in the graph. The same descriptive statement carries evidence that supports, contradicts, and qualifies it --- so the disagreement is visible as evidence, not as vibes. Click any source or claim to traverse.
Contested claims
DoD obligated AI-related contract spending rose substantially 2022-2025, driven by JWCC, Project Maven, and CDAO-managed pilots; precise totals are hampered by inconsistent AI tagging on contract line items.
- Artificial Intelligence and National Security (CRS Report R45178) modeled_projectionweight0.80
locator: AI funding appendix; DoD budget rollups
- USASpending.gov federal contract awards direct_measurementweight0.85
locator: DoD AI-tagged obligations 2022-2025
- The Intercept coverage of Palantir contracts and DoD AI programs journalistic_reportweight0.55
locator: Investigative pieces on DoD AI pilot failures and miscategorization
- Artificial Intelligence: DoD Needs Department-Wide Guidance to Inform Acquisitions (GAO-22-105834 and follow-ups) direct_measurementweight0.75
locator: Summary findings on acquisition-pace gaps