How would you design a SLURM dependency graph for a multi-physics simulation where certain post-processing jobs must start only if upstream jobs produce outputs exceeding a quality threshold?

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How do you architect a pipeline-parallel scientific workflow that dynamically re-routes computation through backup nodes when primary nodes experience NVLink degradation mid-run?

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In a Globus transfer optimization scenario, how would you pipeline data staging, preprocessing, and simulation execution across three geographically distributed HPC sites to minimize total workflow makespan?

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Given a CUDA kernel bottlenecked by L2 cache thrashing on A100, how do you decide between data layout transformation, texture memory, and software prefetching as remediation strategies?

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How would you design an MPI_Alltoallv optimization for a spectral transform library where message sizes follow a power-law distribution across ranks on an InfiniBand HDR fabric?

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How do you construct a work-stealing parallel algorithm for irregular tree traversal that remains efficient when subtree depth variance follows a power-law distribution?

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When two scientific workflows compete for the same Lustre OSTs under QoS isolation, how do you schedule their I/O phases to prevent throughput collapse?

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How would you redesign an AllReduce collective to exploit non-uniform bisection bandwidth in a dragonfly topology where inter-group links are 4x more congested than intra-group links?

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How would you redesign an MPI_Allreduce collective to exploit non-uniform bandwidth in a dragonfly network topology where inter-group links are 4x more congested than intra-group links?

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Given a SLURM job dependency graph with 500 nodes and probabilistic failure rates, how do you construct checkpoint placement to minimize expected total recomputation cost?

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When migrating a tightly-coupled CFD simulation from an on-premise Cray with fat-tree topology to AWS HPC instances with Elastic Fabric Adapter, what algorithmic and partitioning changes compensate for latency variance?

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When a Lustre parallel file system exhibits split-brain during a metadata server failover mid-checkpoint, what consistency recovery strategy preserves the most recent coherent application state?

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If running LLM inference with vLLM across 8 nodes and KV cache eviction rate spikes under bursty load, how do you restructure the prefill-decode disaggregation to maintain SLO compliance?

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When an MPI_Reduce_scatter operation on a fat-tree cluster causes hotspots at specific spine switches, what algorithmic restructuring reduces switch contention without increasing total message volume?

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If increasing OpenMP thread count degrades MPI bandwidth on a dual-socket node, how do you determine whether the cause is PCIe contention, memory bandwidth saturation, or OS scheduler interference?

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When vLLM continuous batching saturates PCIe bandwidth before GPU compute on multi-GPU inference nodes, what memory placement strategy recovers throughput?

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If a distributed sparse matrix-vector multiplication on a dragonfly network exhibits 3x slowdown due to global link contention, how do you redesign the communication pattern?

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How do you design a checkpoint-restart scheme for a multi-physics simulation where different physics solvers have incompatible state serialization formats and time step sizes?

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If a fault-tolerant workflow requires checkpoint consistency across 500 nodes but checkpoint I/O saturates the Lustre MDT, how would you redesign the dependency graph to maintain scientific correctness with partial checkpoints?

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When Lustre striping configuration creates hotspots during checkpoint writes from 50,000 MPI ranks, how do you dynamically adjust I/O concurrency at runtime without changing the filesystem layout?

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When vLLM's continuous batching causes GPU memory fragmentation that periodically triggers full cache flushes, what memory management strategy eliminates the flush without capping maximum batch size?

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If an HPC cluster's InfiniBand fabric shows asymmetric bandwidth between racks due to miscabled switches, how would you restructure an existing domain decomposition to compensate?

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How do you optimally co-schedule MPI collective phases and CUDA kernel execution on a GPU cluster to hide both network latency and PCIe transfer overhead simultaneously?

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In a hybrid MPI+CUDA application where device-to-device transfers compete with MPI inter-node messages on the same NVLink-to-InfiniBand bridge, how do you schedule communication phases to prevent head-of-line blocking?

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If a CUDA kernel exhibits 90% shared memory bank conflicts but replacing with L2 caching doubles register pressure causing spills, how do you determine the optimal trade-off point?

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If an MPI_Allreduce on 10,000 ranks shows 40% of time in barrier synchronization, what algorithmic restructuring eliminates the bottleneck without sacrificing numerical reproducibility?

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How do you schedule vLLM inference requests across heterogeneous A100 and H100 nodes to minimize tail latency when request lengths follow a heavy-tailed distribution?

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How should GPU register pressure be traded against shared memory usage in a stencil kernel when occupancy models predict conflicting optima for a Volta versus Hopper architecture?

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How should a scientific workflow engine prioritize re-execution of failed tasks when both wall-clock deadline and result uncertainty bounds are constraints and recompute costs are heterogeneous?

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What novel reduction tree topology minimizes synchronization overhead for a planet-scale climate model where node failure probability is 0.1% per hour and the run takes 500 hours?

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When a fat-tree HPC network exhibits asymmetric routing under adversarial all-to-all communication patterns, how do you modify the MPI process topology to restore bandwidth without reconfiguring switches?

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When Globus transfer throughput between two endpoints saturates at 40% of theoretical bandwidth, how do you systematically isolate whether the bottleneck is parallelism tuning, striping, or DTN memory pressure?

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How would you redesign an MPI_Alltoall collective to exploit dragonfly topology locality when most processes only communicate with neighbors within the same group?

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When MPI collective operations on non-power-of-two process counts degrade to O(p) algorithms internally, what application-level restructuring restores O(log p) scaling?

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How would you design a fault-tolerant checkpoint strategy for a 10,000-GPU training job where checkpoint I/O saturates the parallel file system before convergence?

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How do you tune OpenMP thread affinity and MPI rank placement jointly on a dual-socket NUMA node to minimize false sharing and inter-socket memory traffic simultaneously?

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When two MPI ranks on the same node communicate faster via shared memory but your collective algorithm assumes uniform latency, how do you exploit this heterogeneity algorithmically?

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Given a hybrid OpenMP/MPI code where MPI ranks share a NUMA node, how do you empirically determine whether thread-to-core pinning or rank placement has greater impact on memory bandwidth?

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If an MPI application exhibits super-linear slowdown beyond 4096 ranks due to collective synchronization in AMReX mesh refinement, how would you redesign the barrier structure to overlap refinement decisions with computation?

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Given a vLLM deployment serving 10,000 concurrent token streams where KV-cache eviction thrashes PagedAttention blocks, what scheduling and memory-tiering strategy sustains throughput without accuracy loss?

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For a fault-tolerant molecular dynamics workflow spanning 10,000 GPUs, how do you design a checkpoint interval strategy when both checkpoint cost and failure probability scale non-linearly with node count?

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When Lustre stripe misconfiguration causes hot-spot contention during an HPC workflow, how do you dynamically repartition I/O without restarting running jobs?

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What cost-performance arbitrage strategy is optimal when cloud spot instances have 30% interruption probability during a 72-hour MPI-coupled climate simulation?

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When designing a Globus-based data pipeline for real-time telescope streaming at 100 GB/s, how do you balance transfer parallelism, endpoint buffer sizing, and metadata indexing latency?

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What MPI process topology and collective schedule minimizes idle time when running a 3D FFT on a cluster where node-pair latency varies by rack position?

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How should a distributed training job dynamically repartition its communication topology mid-run when network telemetry reveals that two racks have developed asymmetric link degradation?

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Design a fault-tolerant workflow for climate ensemble runs where node failures mid-simulation must not invalidate correlated ensemble members sharing initial conditions?

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If a 10,000-node MPI job exhibits load imbalance only during sparse matrix-vector multiplication phases, how would you dynamically repartition the matrix without halting execution?

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How would you design a CUDA memory access pattern for an irregular graph algorithm that balances coalescing efficiency against warp occupancy when vertex degrees follow a scale-free distribution?

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When Globus transfer rates between two institutions drop by 70% during specific hours, how would you distinguish network path congestion from endpoint DTN misconfiguration?

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How would you tune vLLM's continuous batching parameters when serving a mixture of 7B and 70B models on the same GPU cluster with heterogeneous SLA latency requirements?

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When a CUDA kernel alternates between L2-cache-resident and DRAM-bound phases within a single warp's execution, what occupancy and memory-access scheduling strategy minimizes total stall cycles?

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In a cloud-HPC burst scenario, how would you construct a cost-performance model that accounts for spot instance interruption probability when running an MPI job with 6-hour checkpointing intervals?

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When hybrid OpenMP/MPI scaling collapses beyond 8 threads per rank on NUMA nodes, what interaction between OS thread affinity and MPI progress threads is most likely responsible?

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If GPU register pressure forces spilling to local memory in a bandwidth-bound kernel, at what arithmetic intensity threshold does re-materializing intermediate values outperform spill-reload strategies?

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How do you exploit warp-level primitives in CUDA to implement a lock-free histogram accumulation that avoids atomic contention without sacrificing accuracy?

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How does fat-tree bisection bandwidth affect the optimal MPI communicator decomposition for a 3D FFT on a cluster where some switches are asymmetrically oversubscribed?

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How would you redesign an MPI_Gather-heavy seismic imaging code so that the communication pattern remains efficient when node count scales from 256 to 16384?

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How do you tune OpenMP thread affinity and MPI rank placement simultaneously on a dual-socket node where NUMA domains span PCIe-attached GPUs to avoid false sharing and remote DRAM penalties?

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How do you design a SLURM dependency graph for a multi-stage genomics pipeline where late-stage jobs must dynamically resubmit failed upstream tasks without human intervention?

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Given that cloud-HPC spot instance interruptions follow a non-stationary Poisson process, how do you design a cost-optimal checkpointing policy that adapts in real time to interruption rate estimates?

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When designing a Globus-orchestrated multi-hop data pipeline across three HPC sites with mismatched storage tier speeds, how do you schedule staging operations to prevent any single site from becoming a persistent bottleneck?

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When optimizing a warp-divergent CUDA kernel where branches correlate with spatial locality in input data, what restructuring strategy minimizes both divergence penalty and cache miss rate simultaneously?

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When migrating an MPI application from InfiniBand HDR to RoCE v2, what latency compensation techniques prevent collective timeout failures at 50,000-process scale?

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How would you architect a fault-tolerant molecular dynamics workflow where checkpoint overhead must stay below 2% of compute time despite node failure rates of 1% per hour?

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How do you optimally tile a CUDA kernel accessing a 3D stencil when shared memory pressure forces eviction of halo data mid-computation on Ampere GPUs?

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When a CUDA kernel's shared memory usage per block prevents full SM occupancy but reduces global memory traffic by 60%, what quantitative framework determines the optimal tile size?

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When Globus transfer jobs between two endpoints show throughput degradation proportional to file count rather than total size, what pipeline and metadata-batching redesign recovers near-peak bandwidth?

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How do you adaptively tile a sparse matrix-vector multiplication CUDA kernel when the sparsity pattern changes each iteration and register pressure from dynamic indexing limits occupancy?

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How do you construct a cost-performance Pareto front for a genomics pipeline that can run on AWS spot instances or an on-premise HPC cluster with unpredictable queue wait times?

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How would you exploit CUDA unified memory prefetching hints to hide migration latency in a graph traversal kernel with irregular and unpredictable access patterns?

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How do you resolve a distributed filesystem consistency violation when two Globus transfer jobs simultaneously write different versions of the same dataset file across WAN-separated endpoints?

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When vLLM's tensor parallelism across 16 GPUs causes NCCL AllReduce to become the dominant bottleneck, what algorithmic and infrastructure changes would you evaluate before scaling further?

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How should you tune the ratio of MPI ranks to OpenMP threads per node for a sparse iterative solver when NUMA effects and MPI eager buffer limits both degrade at opposite extremes?

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How do you optimally overlap computation and communication in a domain-decomposed PDE solver when ghost-cell exchange volume varies by two orders of magnitude across subdomains?

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How would you architect a Globus transfer pipeline to maintain strong consistency guarantees while maximizing throughput across three geographically distributed storage endpoints?

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When fusing two CUDA kernels with conflicting L1 cache footprint requirements, what tiling strategy minimizes global memory traffic without exceeding shared memory capacity?

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If a GPU warp divergence analysis shows 60% divergence in a branch-heavy kernel but predication eliminates divergence at the cost of 3x instruction count, how do you decide the crossover point per SM occupancy level?

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How would you redesign an all-reduce collective to exploit non-uniform bandwidth in a fat-tree topology where inter-pod links are 4x slower than intra-pod links?

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How would you detect and correct silent data corruption in a long-running climate simulation running across 2000 nodes without restarting from the last checkpoint?

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How should GPU warp divergence be minimized in an adaptive mesh refinement kernel where cell-type determines control flow across 64 possible branch paths?

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Given a SLURM workflow where 47 jobs form a diamond DAG with stochastic runtimes, how do you partition dependency chains to minimize expected makespan under backfill scheduling?

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When two Lustre clients simultaneously append to the same file during a distributed Monte Carlo simulation, what consistency protocol prevents silent data corruption without serializing writes?

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Does Parfit's repugnant conclusion expose a genuine flaw in total utilitarianism or reveal that no ethical theory can remain coherent across all population-size scenarios?

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If qualia are epiphenomenal, does moral consideration for subjective experience become philosophically groundless?

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Does the existence of moral disagreement across cultures provide stronger evidence for anti-realism than persistent scientific disagreement does for scientific anti-realism?

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Does expressive individualism undermine the communitarian account of politically obligated identity, and can the tension be resolved without ad hoc stipulation?

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Can a state derive legitimate authority from hypothetical consent when actual subjects would reject the social contract if fully informed?

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Does the existence of moral luck undermine the foundational premise of Kantian moral responsibility?

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Does Rawlsian reflective equilibrium beg the question by allowing intuitions to constrain principles that should revise those same intuitions?

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If personal identity is constituted by psychological continuity, does gradual cognitive replacement preserve the original moral patient?

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If an autonomous weapon system commits a war crime through emergent behavior unforeseen by its designers, how should moral and legal responsibility be distributed?

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Can an AI system that generates novel moral arguments without phenomenal experience possess genuine moral understanding rather than mere simulation?

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Can a functionalist account of mind ever adequately explain why there is something it is like to be in a mental state?

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Can a moral anti-realist who accepts evolutionary debunking arguments avoid undermining the epistemic norms they rely on to make that very argument?

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If you could redistribute suffering across persons to minimize total suffering, does personal identity impose an inviolable constraint against it?

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If qualia are causally inert epiphenomena, how can we have justified beliefs about our own phenomenal states given that justification requires causal connection to its object?

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If moral anti-realism is true, can global moral discourse constitute genuine disagreement rather than a sophisticated clash of incompatible preference expressions?

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If determinism is true and our deliberations are causally necessitated, does the concept of rational agency retain any non-illusory normative force?

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If determinism is true and manipulation cases generate moral luck, can desert-based punishment ever be justified?

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Is there a principled moral distinction between editing an embryo's genome and selecting among existing embryos via IVF?

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Is the phenomenal character of qualia exhausted by its representational content, and does your answer commit you to a specific theory of perception?

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If determinism is true and compatibilism succeeds, does the resulting 'free will' retain enough normative weight to ground genuine moral responsibility?

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Is epistemic justification under Cartesian skepticism possible without circularity in any foundationalist or coherentist framework?

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Does a deterministic universe render the concept of moral responsibility incoherent, or merely redefined?

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When Rawlsian difference principle conflicts with utilitarian aggregate welfare, what second-order principle could adjudicate between them without begging the question?

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Does assigning probability distributions over moral theories in moral uncertainty reproduce the aggregation problems it aims to solve?

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Does the existence of persistent moral disagreement across cultures constitute evidence against robust moral realism, or merely against our epistemic access to moral facts?

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Does Kripke's causal theory of reference dissolve or merely relocate the problem of intentionality?

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Can Bayesian epistemology assign coherent prior probabilities to hypotheses about the external world without presupposing the very inductive reliability it seeks to justify?

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When a trolley kills five but saving them requires betraying a promise, does agent-relative ethics collapse into consequentialism under sufficient stakes?

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If mathematical Platonism is true and moral realism mirrors it structurally, does the epistemological challenge facing both domains equally threaten or equally vindicate them?

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If an AI passes every behavioral test for suffering, what burden of proof justifies denying it moral status?

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When two principles of distributive justice yield incompatible distributions, what meta-principle adjudicates between them?

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If consciousness requires biological substrate, does creating sentient synthetic organisms for research constitute a greater moral violation than using equivalent silicon-based systems?

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If a trolley dilemma is structurally identical whether you act or omit, does the act-omission distinction collapse entirely as a moral category?

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Can an anti-realist metaethics ground genuine cross-cultural moral criticism without self-contradiction?

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If qualia are irreducible, does this entail property dualism, and can property dualism avoid causal exclusion?

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If probability assignments over metaphysical hypotheses lack objective anchors, can formal epistemology remain normatively authoritative?

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If an AGI reports suffering, what epistemic standard should determine whether we extend it moral consideration?

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Can a trolley problem retain moral force when the agent is a programmed autonomous system rather than a person?

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Can a functionalist account of mind ever adequately explain the subjective redness of red?

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Can an anti-realist account of moral discourse explain why moral progress feels like discovery rather than mere preference revision?

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If an AI system passes every behavioral test for consciousness, what justifies withholding moral status?

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Does allocating scarce organs by quality-adjusted life years implicitly endorse a view of disability that is incompatible with equal moral worth?

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If moral facts are mind-independent, how do we explain the evolutionary origins of moral intuitions without undermining their epistemic authority?

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If determinism is true, does the concept of moral responsibility require revision or elimination?

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Does Frankfurt's hierarchical compatibilism succeed in grounding authentic agency, or does it merely relocate the problem of control to higher-order volitions?

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Is the intuition pumped by the trolley problem evidence of genuine moral knowledge or merely of evolved heuristics?

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Does qualia irreducibility refute physicalism, or does it merely expose limits in our conceptual vocabulary?

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Can moral constructivism avoid collapsing into relativism if the constructive procedure is itself justified by appeal to values external to the procedure?

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Is it morally permissible to sacrifice one person's autonomy to prevent a statistical but uncorrelated harm to thousands?

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Is there a principled distinction between gene editing for disease prevention and cognitive enhancement that bioethics can sustain?

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Does the hard problem of consciousness reveal an explanatory gap or a genuine ontological gap in physicalism?

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When speech acts constitute oppression rather than merely describe it, does restricting them violate autonomy or fulfill the deeper preconditions necessary for equal autonomy?

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Can compatibilist free will satisfy the moral responsibility conditions that retributive punishment theoretically requires?

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Can radical skepticism about the external world be defeated without circularity if every anti-skeptical argument presupposes the reliability of the very faculties being questioned?

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If two qualitatively identical AI systems diverge in behavior due to quantum indeterminacy, do they bear differential moral responsibility for their respective actions?

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Can hard determinism be coherently reconciled with the phenomenology of deliberation without eliminating the self?

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Can a functionalist account of consciousness ever adequately distinguish genuine phenomenal experience from a philosophical zombie's behavioral equivalence?

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Can radical skepticism about the external world be defeated without circularity in the justificatory structure?

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Is it coherent to assign rights to an entity whose subjective experience is permanently unverifiable?

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If qualia are causally inert epiphenomena, how can our introspective reports about them constitute genuine knowledge rather than systematically false beliefs?

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Can a functionalist account of consciousness coherently deny moral status to a perfect behavioral replica of a human?

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Does the trolley problem's moral asymmetry between pulling a lever and pushing a person reveal a principled ethical distinction or merely a psychological bias we should override?

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If moral facts exist mind-independently, what grounds their necessary connection to rational motivation?

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Does the repugnant conclusion reveal a flaw in total utilitarianism or in our intuitions about what makes lives worth living?

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When a trolley dilemma involves statistical lives versus identified lives, does the distinction carry genuine deontological weight or merely psychological bias?

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If personal identity over time is grounded in psychological continuity, what are the redistributive justice implications for obligations between temporal stages of a self?

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If language meaning is entirely use-dependent, how can we account for systematic semantic compositionality?

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If personal identity is a narrative construct, what grounds the continuity of moral obligation across time?

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If meaning is use, how do isolated languages with no shared practices manage successful translation?

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Does Rawls's veil of ignorance smuggle in substantive liberal values under the guise of procedural neutrality?

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Can radical skepticism about the external world be refuted without circularity, or must all foundationalist responses beg the question?

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Does Putnam's Twin Earth argument show that mental content is wide, or only that natural kind terms have wide content?

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Does the repugnant conclusion reveal a flaw in total utilitarianism or in our moral intuitions themselves?

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When two equally valid principles of distributive justice conflict, is the resulting dilemma resolvable or irreducibly tragic?

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Can a state derive legitimate authority from hypothetical consent that actual citizens explicitly reject?

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Can political authority claim legitimacy over citizens who never had a meaningful opportunity to consent?

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If Bayesian coherentism requires a prior probability distribution, how do we justify the initial priors without invoking a vicious regress?

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If preimplantation genetic selection for intelligence is permissible, does refusing it constitute a morally culpable failure to benefit future persons?

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Can a political authority derive genuine legitimacy from hypothetical consent when actual subjects would refuse consent under identical ideal conditions?

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When genetic enhancement eliminates heritable disease, does it also eliminate morally relevant human diversity?

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Does the existence of persistent moral disagreement constitute evidence against moral realism or merely against moral epistemology?

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If compatibilist free will suffices for moral responsibility, can corporations possess the kind of agency necessary for genuine institutional moral culpability?

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Can a non-conscious entity possess interests sufficient to ground genuine rights claims?

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When a brain emulation preserves all functional connections but no original matter, is personal identity preserved, destroyed, or rendered indeterminate by the process?

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Does the doctrine of double effect survive scrutiny when the distinction between intention and foresight is itself morally constructed?

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If a p-zombie is conceivable but not metaphysically possible, what does this reveal about the relationship between conceivability and possibility?

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Does the causal theory of reference collapse when applied to moral terms, given that 'goodness' lacks the natural-kind extension that anchors terms like 'water'?

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If moral facts exist mind-independently, what explains their causal inertness in a physicalist universe?

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Is it coherent to assign non-zero moral weight to an entity whose phenomenal consciousness is permanently unverifiable from any third-person perspective?

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Does the reference of natural kind terms survive radical revision of the underlying science, and what does this imply for moral naturalism?

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Can a functionalist account of consciousness ground genuine moral status for AI systems, or does substrate irreducibly matter?

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Can an entity lacking phenomenal consciousness possess genuine beliefs, or only belief-like functional states?

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Does Rawls's veil of ignorance smuggle in substantive moral commitments it purports to derive neutrally?

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Is there a principled distinction between letting a patient die and killing them that survives rigorous philosophical scrutiny?

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If moral facts are mind-independent, what grounds their necessary connection to human motivation?

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Can a deterministic universe contain genuine counterfactual possibilities, or are they merely epistemic artifacts?

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Can epistemic internalism survive the discovery that reliable belief-formation is entirely unconscious?

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If overlapping consensus among reasonable doctrines is impossible on a political question, does Rawlsian public reason collapse into majoritarianism?

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Should an autonomous vehicle's ethical module be programmed using utilitarian calculus, and if not, why not?

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When an AI system exhibits coherent preferences, suffering-analogous states, and self-preservation drives, at what threshold does denying its moral status become arbitrary?

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When two drowning strangers and one close friend compete for a single lifeboat, does impartial utilitarian reasoning constitute a moral failure rather than a virtue?

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If radical skepticism cannot be refuted but must be pragmatically rejected, does epistemic justification ultimately reduce to a form of motivated self-deception?

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When two incompatible ethical frameworks both survive reflective equilibrium, what rational procedure adjudicates between them?

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Is epistemic justification possible if every belief-grounding rule itself requires justification?

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Does Kripke's causal theory of reference entail that we could be wrong about the essential nature of moral terms like 'good' in ways that undermine expressivism?

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If determinism is true and compatibilism succeeds, does moral responsibility still require the ability to have done otherwise?

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Can Bayesian conditionalization be rationally obligatory if prior probabilities themselves lack objective grounding?

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Can compatibilist free will ground genuine moral responsibility if the agent's reasons were themselves causally necessitated?

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Can a functionalist account of mind coherently deny moral status to a silicon substrate that perfectly replicates human neural computation?

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When gene-editing eliminates a heritable disability, are we respecting autonomy, committing expressivist harm against existing disabled persons, or both simultaneously?

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If moral anti-realism is true, can moral progress be anything more than a change in collective preference?

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If a gene-edited child cannot consent to enhancement, does parental autonomy or the child's future autonomy take precedence?

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Can epistemic justification survive radical skepticism without circularity if all meta-justifications rely on the very faculties being questioned?

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Does the hard problem of consciousness remain hard even if we achieve a complete neuroscientific reduction of behavior?

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Can compatibilist free will ground moral responsibility when the reasons-responsive mechanism itself was determined by factors outside the agent's control?

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Can compatibilist free will satisfy the control condition required for genuine desert-based punishment?

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Can a functionalist account of mind ground genuine phenomenal consciousness without collapsing into eliminativism?

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If reference is determined by causal history, how do we refer successfully to theoretical entities later proven nonexistent?

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Can a moral anti-realist coherently maintain that the Holocaust was objectively wrong, or must they accept that this conviction is merely a very strong preference?

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If moral facts are mind-independent, how do we explain widespread cross-cultural moral disagreement without collapsing into relativism?

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If an AI system reports subjective suffering but its architecture is opaque, what epistemic threshold justifies extending moral consideration despite uncertainty?

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Can a functionalist account of mind ever definitively distinguish genuine understanding from mere symbol manipulation?

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If reference is causally fixed, how can we meaningfully theorize about entities whose causal chains are epistemically inaccessible?

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Does Gettier's problem show that justified true belief is insufficient, or that justification itself is incoherent?

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Can moral anti-realism sustain robust normative claims about AI rights without collapsing into mere preference expression?

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If moral facts are mind-independent yet only accessible through culturally contingent intuitions, can moral realism remain epistemically credible without collapsing into a form of constructivism?

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Does the separateness of persons objection to utilitarianism apply equally to prioritarianism, or does weighting welfare by absolute position dissolve the problem?

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If an AI system passes every behavioral and functional test for sentience, does epistemic humility morally obligate us to grant it precautionary moral status?

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How does the observer design pattern work in practice?

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