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when computer scientists rely on their own limited intuitions to design systems, rather than engage theories that show how identities are “enacted, contextual, imaginative, and infrastructural,” they are likely to perpetuate patterns of discrimination and disenfranchisement.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
These acts of re-labelling are often inspired by the work of sociologist Arlie Hochschild. Hochschild’s 1983 The Managed Heart described how certain jobs involve the management of a worker’s own internal emotional states.
Amelia Horgan • Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
We can’t design well for that which is unpredictable. But we can design more accessibly and can invite futures that enable more of us to live and thrive,
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
To the extent that people do use AI tools for real work, it is often through something like an application copilot. These are all built to offer a “safe” way to use AI at work, and as such are often very limited compared to what a frontier model can do.
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
So is it helpful to think of a city as a computational kind of—I wouldn’t even say ecology because ecology is a separate metaphor itself—as a computational object or system? Is it a biophysical body? Is it an ecology? Is it a machine? And I think that different policymakers and reformers and other folks who kind of build worlds use different metaph... See more
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
André Chaperon
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Human minds are not elusive, ghostly inner things. They are seething, swirling oceans of prediction, continuously orchestrated by brain, body, and world . We should be careful what kinds of material, digital, and social worlds we build, because in building those worlds we are building our own minds too.
kyla scanlon • The Nostalgia Cycle Loop
“I’m very bullish on just general intelligence augmentation and ways for people to think about patterns of thought and unique UIs for running algorithms where you are the compiler” – Conor White-Sullivan