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  2. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
    1. Julia Evans. Examples of floating point problems. January 2023. URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/01/13/examples-of-floating-point-problems/ (visited on 2023-11-24).

      The author talks about the different use cases of floating points as well as explaining what they are. Floating point numbers are numbers that contain decimals, similar to integers with the exception that they can be longer and tend to be more precise forms of keeping track of numerical data; floats are often used in more complex math operations.

    1. “Design justice is a framework for analysis of how design distributes benefits and burdens between various groups of people. Design justice focuses explicitly on the ways that design reproduces and/or challenges the matrix of domination (white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, settler colonialism, and other forms of structural inequality).” It’s also about which groups get to be part of the design process itself.

      Design justice is an interesting concept. I feel we usually forget how the users/those having their data collected are impacted by the data collection. Also it makes me wonder how harmful is the data companies collect on us, and subsequently do we have an expectation of data privacy whenusing companies platforms.

  3. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
    1. Steven Tweedie. This disturbing image of a Chinese worker with close to 100 iPhones reveals how App Store rankings can be manipulated. February 2015. URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/photo-shows-how-fake-app-store-rankings-are-made-2015-2 (visited on 2024-03-07).

      It is interesting to see how an app store manipulation farm is still running partially on people's actions. It is interesting to think about that when we have been able to automate so many complex tasks but for whatever reason it seems to be more efficient to stil use real people in a freezing room.

    1. Bots, on the other hand, will do actions through social media accounts and can appear to be like any other user. The bot might be the only thing posting to the account, or human users might sometimes use a bot to post for them. Note that sometimes people use “bots” to mean inauthentically run accounts, such as those run by actual humans, but are paid to post things like advertisements or political content. We will not consider those to be bots, since they aren’t run by a computer. Though we might consider these to be run by “human computers” who are following the instructions given to them, such as in a click farm:

      It interesting to see how bots are so similar to users. It is especially scary to think about this when you look at how most platforms don't have bot tags or even if they do when people intentionally don't label accounts as bots for malice intent.I have never really considered these accounts that are run by humans that post junk and spam to be bots but I can see how people would consider a bot account anything that spams them.

  4. Apr 2026
    1. Natural Rights

      Natural Rights - All people are born with the rights to life liberty and property, and these rights should be protected.

      Intervene - An example of intervening would be protecting someones natural rights. An example could be intervening by placing a parent/family member in a a full time health care home.

      Not Intervene - Not making that decision for your parent/family member. Honoring there right to make that decision for themselves bc it is their natural right to make decision about their life.

    1. Confucius, Analects 15.23 [b9] (~500 BCE China) “There is nothing dearer to man than himself; therefore, as it is the same thing that is dear to you and to others, hurt not others with what pains yourself.”

      I didn't know that so many philosophers had written about the golden rule in some way all being a little different but largely carrying the same intent and information. It's also interesting you can see how someones cultural background would change how they say the golden rule; I can tell having grown up in a school that very much emphasized western values I know the golden rule as it is said in Matthews 7:12, but I Imagine people growing up with influences from different cultures have a different way of sayin it.

    1. “We’re not making it for that reason but the way ppl choose to use it isn’t our fault. Safeguard will develop.” But tech is moving so fast. That there is no way humanity or laws can keep up. We don’t even know how to deal with open death threats online. Only “Can we do this?” Never “should we do this? We’ve seen that same blasé attitude in how Twitter or Facebook deal w abuse/fake news.

      I find his comments on this to be ver true. It often seems very little consideration is put in on the long twrm affects on humanity as a whole from developing and releasing these technologies. A prime example of this is accessible AI image generation. When the company X made there AI image bot lack many of the standard sfty gaurd rails of the modern image generation algorithms they developed something that does real harm to people daily without consideration for all it will harm.