awesome-thought-experiments

Source Review: Third, Ethics Batch

Current status: All five entries are source_checked for their recorded claim-traceability scope after local revisions and independent read-only rechecks. This is not expert review or a judgment that the philosophical arguments are sound or settled.

What changed

The evidence ledger records 50 first-pass claim-to-source findings, passage locations, source types and access levels, claim relationships, limitations, edits, and both post-edit review rounds. Independent reviewers checked article/dataset alignment and reopened key cited sources where needed. Smith and Jones passed on the first post-edit round; four targeted findings were corrected and rechecked before all five received source_checked status.

Remaining limitations

“Source-checked” here means the material claims in the declared scope are traceable to evidence in an appropriate source, with relevant passages read and qualifications or editorial framing identified. It does not mean the philosophical questions are settled, the wider literature has been exhaustively reviewed, or a human subject-matter expert has reviewed the entries. The Williams source is a revised reprint, Nagel’s is a hosted reproduction with inconsistent page labels, only relevant portions of the Euthyphro and other secondary sources were needed and read, and the NEJM publisher’s full article text remains subscriber-only; these access distinctions are disclosed in the articles and ledger. The cited source for the bomber pair does not establish its first publication or originator.

After this batch, 44 of the 57 expansion entries remain outside claim-level audits.

Verification and publication state

The five data/experiments.json records contain aligned references and 2026-11-01 verification dates; the audit evidence remains outside the public dataset schema. Repository validation passed for all 132 entries; all 18 unit tests passed, the five article/dataset reference lists aligned, JSON parsing succeeded, and git diff --check was clean. External URLs were checked for syntax only. All third-batch changes are local, uncommitted, and unpushed. The existing review branch is unchanged; nothing in this batch is merged to main or deployed.