Scott explores moral offsetting, introducing a framework distinguishing axiology, morality, and law to argue that we can offset axiological but not moral violations.

Scott Alexander examines the concept of 'ethics offsets', exploring its applications and ethical implications from simple cases to extreme scenarios.

Two scientists ride a rented supercomputer into a world imagined by their late colleague, with four months until the budget lets them home, and discover that nothing there burns, heats or works the way it should.

Scott argues that virtue ethics is not merely intuitive morality and that relying on intuition alone fails to address complex ethical dilemmas.