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Algorithmic decision making
EU: significant decision making cannot be based solely on automatic information processing (though, what is to say that the human consciousness isn’t just automatic information processing?...
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Bentoism
My long term Bento A way of planning with a wider view of interests than just what we want right now, like our future selves, the people we care about, and the future of our children....
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Burnout
From In Over Our Heads Related: pain is not the unit of effort...
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Community of Fate
Margaret Levi in Noema Magazine The keystone is generating an “expanded community of fate....
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Mutual Aid
Book by Dean Spade
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Religious authority
As it pertains to epistemic authority Debates from Classical South Asia Right and wrong aren’t directly perceptible to humans But some traditions in CSA say yes: revelation/sacred texts The source must be āpta with regard to what’s right and wrong; must have: perfect knowledge of right and wrong the ability to communicate this knowledge at least lack the intention to lie, if not have the intention to communicate honestly Vedas are author-less so can have no faults or biases – uniquely trustworthy Dharmakīrti against authority of the Vedas Even if there was a flawless revealed source, it wouldn’t help as the the revealed source still has to be interpreted and this necessarily happens through human interactions mediated by language Partiality makes communication possible, words are meaning-laden (see: terminology) because of conventions and usage No one, then, can know the meaning of an ‘authorless’ word: “it is not possible in the case of words that lack an [original] expounder” Common usage is partial and not an independent source of knowledge “Since the meaning of authorless words [can] be known neither from tradition, nor from reason, nor from the [ordinary] world, it is [only] proper [to say] that there is no cognition [of the meaning] in this case” See also: derived intentionality Cannot trust other humans who are also flawed “Indeed, a blind [person] does not find the way when led by [another] blind [person]!...
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HTTP
Main method of communication at the Application Layer for the web...
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Lost knowledge
Source: Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines in The Atlantic...
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Gate Keeping
Mass media communications theory Origins in social psychology Gatekeeper makes decisions about what should be passed on and to whom A form of social control Digital gate keeping Platforms gate keep by managing information flows in many different ways Non-human agents participate through algorithmic filtering (e....
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Moderation
What is the role of moderation in communities? What does good/bad moderation look like?...