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For the innocent bystanders (because I know that I won’t change @bender’s opinion):
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Gemini liked your opinion very much. Here is how it countered:
1. The User Perspective (Untrustworthiness)The criticism of AI as untrustworthy is a problem of misapplication, not capability.
- AI as a Force Multiplier: AI should be treated as a high-speed drafting and brainstorming tool, not an authority. For experts, it offers an immense speed gain, shifting the work from slow manual creation to fast critical editing and verification.
- The Rise of AI Literacy: Users must develop a new skill—AI literacy—to critically evaluate and verify AI’s probabilistic output. This skill, along with improving citation features in AI tools, mitigates the “gaslighting” effect.
The fear of skill loss is based on a misunderstanding of how technology changes the nature of work; it’s skill evolution, not erosion.
- Shifting Focus to High-Level Skills: Just as the calculator shifted focus from manual math to complex problem-solving, AI shifts the focus from writing boilerplate code to architectural design and prompt engineering. It handles repetitive tasks, freeing humans for creative and complex challenges.
- Accessibility and Empowerment: AI serves as a powerful democratizing tool, offering personalized tutoring and automation to people who lack deep expertise. While dependency is a risk, this accessibility empowers a wider segment of the population previously limited by skill barriers.
The legal and technical flaws are issues of governance and ethical practice, not reasons to reject the core technology.
- Need for Better Bot Governance: Destructive scraping is a failure of ethical web behavior and can be solved with better bot identification, rate limits, and protocols (like enhanced
robots.txt). The solution is to demand digital citizenship from AI companies, not to stop AI development.
Hoje vou estar em representação da @d3 no Festival MIL, numa conversa dedicada ao tema “Culture and Ethics: Cultural rights in the digital space”. Vai ser da pesada, apareçam!
Rooney questions work ethic of ‘lost’ Salah
Wayne Rooney, Kelly Somers, Kae Kurd and John Gibbons from The Anfield Wrap discuss Liverpool’s loss of form, and why their talisman Mohamed Salah looks “lost”. ⌘ Read more
Lawmakers Across the Country This Year Blocked Ethics Reforms Meant to Increase Public Trust
Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica, with additional reporting by Nick Reynolds and Anna Wilder, The Post and Courier; Yasmeen Khan, The Maine Monitor; Lauren Dake, Oregon Public Broadcasting; Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In Depth; Louis Hansen, Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO; Mary Steurer and Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Moni … ⌘ Read more
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A good blog post that makes some good points: Can I ethically use LLMs?
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@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club This was an interesting read for sure! 👍 I don’t think it had anything I hadn’t already considered in terms of the ethical/moral points of view. I’m not sure where I stand myself either to be honest. I’ve forced myself to get familiar with the ecosystem and tooling, because in my line of work as a tech lead (staff engineer in sre) you don’t want to be that one guy that ya know 😉 Ethically/Morally though, I’m definitely with the sentiment of this post 😅 Much like the whole Crypto hype yaers back (if y’all remember?!) this is also one of the most energy hungry pieces of “tech” (if you can call it that?) in a while. Then there’s these other issues “stealing people’s work”, “reliance is causing humans to become cognitively weak and neural connections to shrink”, to name a few…
A good blog post that makes some good points: Can I ethically use LLMs?
Anzeige: IT-Sicherheit stärken durch fundiertes Ethical Hacking
Wer Netzwerke und Systeme wirksam schützen will, muss Angriffsstrategien nachvollziehen können. Ein fünftägiger Online-Workshop vermittelt die Inhalte des CEH-v13-Programms - praxisnah und umfassend. ( Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke) 
_Stephan: The United States is no longer going to have a fair and legitimate legal system. The FBI has been corrupted into a personal internal army to pursue what “king” Trump wants pursued, and the lawyers of DOJ that are ethical men and women are resigning or, as this article describes, being fired. Like everything else T … ⌘ Read more
Silence of the Cowards: The Former Republican Party
John B. Alexander, Commentator -
_Stephan: I completely agree with what John Alexander says here. What stands out for me more than anything else in the coup we are undergoing is the spinelessness and lack of ethics of the entire Republican Party. We have an election coming in 2026 – if criminal Trump hasn’t suspended or completely rigged elections, following Putin’s model. And, of course, you know that oligarchs led my … ⌘ Read more
Trump removes top government ethics czar
Fredreka Schouten, Staff Writer - CNN
_Stephan: ”Emperor” Trump is committed to the destruction of American democracy, and he does not want to be bothered by anyone reporting his, and his vassals, lack of ethics and ongoing criminality. So what to do? The answer is simple: eliminate any ethical oversight of their ongoing coup. And that is exactly what criminal Trump has done. This article describes it. Meanwhile, the majority of the America … ⌘ Read more
‘Most dangerous technology ever’: Protesters urge AI pause
Google this week quietly revised its artificial intelligence ethics, no longer ruling out military or surveillance use. ⌘ Read more
10 Controversial Experiments Conducted on Children
Through experiments, scientists and psychologists hope to improve the lives of humans and uncover new information that can benefit our health and well-being. Sometimes, these experiments can be looked at as unconventional and controversial when conducted on humans. Many believe these experiments cross ethical lines, especially when children are involved. Here are ten controversial experiments […]
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Melania Trump joins her husband in the meme coin billions business
Ben Berkowitz , Brady Dale, Reporters - Axios
_Stephan: In the whole of American history there has been no precedent for the corruption, lack of ethics, and greed of Donald and Melania Trump. Convicted sex offender and multiple felon, and his porn sex model wife have, with an existential appropriateness, become the couple leading a country that has lost its way; like an ancient myth come t … ⌘ Read more
It’s not just social media giving violent white supremacists a pass
Thom Hartmann, Commentator - Raw Story
_Stephan: Thom Hartmann gives us an accurate snapshot of the state of America as we prepare to inaugurate for President a man who could not get a job as a janitor if all they saw was his resumé. And his demand for loyalty over ethical behavior reminds me more of Hitler or Putin than any prior President. Get ready, I think we are in for something we h … ⌘ Read more
Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 22 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.
Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 15 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 15th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.
- Updates. What is everyone working on?
- Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography3
- AOB
This meeting’s chairperson should be Rucknium4. The … ⌘ Read more
Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 8 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 8th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.
- Updates. What is everyone working on?
- Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography3
This meeting’s chairperson should be Rucknium4. The full dis … ⌘ Read more
Merrick Garland’s DOJ criticized for impeding Ethics Committee’s Matt Gaetz investigation
Sarah K. Burns, Senior Digital Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: It is my belief that in the future historians are going to see Senator Mitch McConnell and Attorney General Merrick Garand as two of the worst villains and the weakest men of this period. Biden is an institutionalist and he has been weak in dealing with Garland whom he should have replac … ⌘ Read more
Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 1 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 1st 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.
- Updates. What is everyone working on?
- Discussion: preventing P2P proxy nodes3
- Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography4
This meeting’s cha … ⌘ Read more
‘Kind of amazing’: Ethics expert aghast by Trump Christmas merchandise spree
Brad Reed, Managing Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: Donald Trump and I met in New York at a charity function arranged by Gloria Vanderbilt when he was about 20 and I was about 24. We began talking because as we stood at the bar he noticed that like himself I had asked the bartender for iced sparkly water with a lime slice in it. He introduced himself and when I asked him what … ⌘ Read more
New ethics inquiry details more trips by Clarence Thomas paid for by wealthy benefactors
Associated Press Editorial Staff, - The Guardian (U.K.) | Associated Press
_Stephan: The christofascist Supreme Court majority engineered by Leonard Leo, Mitch McConnell and Trump, has produced the most corrupt court in the history of the United States. Not only corrupt but incredibly arrogant. They have no ethic standards they are required to … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Devils, in Detail https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/15/devils-detail.html #ethics #harm #media #rant
[ANN] Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography
Link: https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/131
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Choosing Empathy Is Critical to Democracy
C. Daryl Cameron, Associate Professor of Psychology, Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, and Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University. - Scientific American
_Stephan: You have heard me talking about why fostering wellbeing by always choosing in every decision you make the option that is the most compassionate, life-affirming, and fostering of wellbeing is both the best choice … ⌘ Read more
I have ethical concerns about executing killall node in my console, regardless of how necessary it is.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2024
From advancing ethical AI practices to expanding open source learning for developers in Africa, discover how we’ve fostered diversity, inclusion, and belonging this year.
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On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Ethics https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/29/ethics.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Demystifying LLMs: How they can do things they weren’t trained to do
Explore how LLMs generate text, why they sometimes hallucinate information, and the ethical implications surrounding their incredible capabilities.
The post Demystifying LLMs: How they can do things they weren’t trained to do appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
Your curated GitHub Universe agenda: AI, ethics, and productivity
Gain actionable insights about the intersection of AI and human skills, while tackling ethics, accessibility, and productivity at these GitHub Universe sessions.
The post Your curated GitHub Universe agenda: AI, ethics, and productivity appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
I really enjoy the portray of conseqduentialism in the SEP article on deontology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/
Is There An Ethical Diet? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains… ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: The Underlying Theme
In a comment on my recent post about Aristotle on ways of life, my friend Kurt wondered if, according to Aristotle, the best life must have a single purpose (in Greek, a telos). I would say so: at the very beginning of the Eudemian Ethics, he says that it is a sign of great folly to not organize your life around some telos. Yet I think this can be interpreted in several different ways…. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Superheroes Behaving Badly https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/21/super.html #rant #superhero #ethics
🤔 👋 Reconsidering moving Yarn.social’s development back to Github: Speaking of which (I do not forget); @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com and I were discussing over a video call two nights ago, as well as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org who joined a bit later, about the the whole moved of all of my projects and their source code off of Github. Whilst some folks do understand and appreciate my utter disgust over what Microsoft and Copilot did by blatantly scraping open source software’s codebases without even so much as any attempt at attribution or respecting the licenes of many (if not all?) open source projects.
That being said however, @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com makes a very good and valid argument for putting Yarn.social’s codebases, repositories and issues back on Github for reasons that make me “torn” over my own sense of morality and ethics.
But I can live with this as long as I continue to run and operate my new (yet to be off the ground) company “Self Hosted Pty Ltd” and where it operates it’s own code hosting, servicesa, tools, etc.
Plese comment here on your thoughts. Let us decide togetehr 🤗
The challenge of sourcing ethical computer hardware
Every laptop and smartphone we can buy right now is tainted in some terrible way. ⌘ Read more
The Ethics and Safety of Driverless Cars with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Malcolm Gladwell ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Media and Imposed Morality https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/11/mmedia.html #harm #ethics #safety #media
On the blog: Content Advisories https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/04/advisory.html #harm #ethics #safety
Robot Ethics with Dr. Kate Darling — Cosmic Queries ⌘ Read more…
The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.
At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: (Finally) Cutting the Cord https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/04/cord-cut.html #media #television #nonfree #ethics
The wise man bowed his head and said solemnly: “There is in fact no difference between aesthetics and ethics (normativity and morality). You imbecile. You fucking moron.”
Umeshism: If you can follow your own ethical rules, your own ethical rules are not demanding enough.
[Questions About] versus [Moral Arguments From] Coherent Ethical Simplicity
On the blog: Wanted — Ethical Media Consumption https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/02/ethmedia.html #media #license #ethics #rant
Are the people who think ‘problematic’ means ‘cancelled’ the same ones who think ‘there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism’ means ‘never buy anything’? Glad I don’t know any of them.
“Ethics” and Ethics - iA https://ia.net/topics/ethics-and-ethics
The American Worth Ethic https://longreads.com/2019/04/08/the-american-worth-ethic/
The problem with AI ethics - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18293410/ai-artificial-intelligence-ethics-boards-charters-problem-big-tech
Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/50-shades-of-greyhat-a-study-in-how-not-to-handle-security-disclosures/
Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues
Laura Kalbag “ Ethical design is not superficial https://laurakalbag.com/ethical-design-is-not-superficial/
The Ethics of Web Performance - TimKadlec.com https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-09-the-ethics-of-performance/
Open source DIY ethics https://arp242.net/weblog/diy.html
The Internet Doesn’t Need Civility, It Needs Ethics - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5gxn/the-internet-doesnt-need-civility-it-needs-ethics
Do you know your stuff? The ethics of the material world | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/do-you-know-your-stuff-the-ethics-of-the-material-world
How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext
Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethics-in-computer-science-with-up-to-3-5-million-in-prizes/
“Striving to minimize technical and reputational risks” – Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s guilty … https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/striving-to-minimize-technical-and-reputational-risks-ethical-os-and-silicon-valleys-guilty-conscience/
‘Ethics are beyond my purview’ is a fancy way of saying ‘it is unsafe to allow me to make decisions’
eBay, Organized Crime, and Evangelical Christians: The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civ… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgxjp/ebay-organized-crime-and-evangelical-christians-the-ethical-minefield-of-studying-ancient-civilizations-hobby-lobby-irisagrig-iraq
Bad idea of the day: a letter-writing campaign to members of CS program accreditation boards (at their home addresses) requesting algorithmic bias & data ownership be a part of mandatory ethics classes in the curriculum.
Using Ethics In Web Design â Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/
Why Big Tech Needs Big Ethics — Right Now! – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/03/24/why-big-tech-needs-big-ethics-right-now
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - All… http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
Tech Ethics Curriculum - Google Sheets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jWIrA8jHz5fYAW4h9CkUD8gKS5V98PDJDymRf8d9vKI/edit?imm_mid=0f852c
Welcome To The Secret World of Internet Bots | Bitch Media https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/the-ethics-of-internet-bots
The Complex Ethics of a Haunted House Starring Psychiatric Patients - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/utah-state-haunted-castle-psychiatric-hospital
📚 Finished reading Experiments in Ethics (The Mary Flexner Lectures) by Kwame Anthony Appiah
📚 Finished reading Experiments in Ethics (The Mary Flexner Lectures) by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Mel Brooks, The Producers and the Ethics of Satire about N@zis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cPPSyoQkE