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  1. Nov 2025
    1. Unklar ist derzeit offenbar noch, ob die weitere Umsetzung der KI-Verordnung in Teilen aufgeschoben wird.

      AI Act application might be postponed in parts

    2. Die Kommission will erreichen, dass sensible Daten enger definiert werden. Besonders geschützt wären dann nur noch jene Daten, die oben genannte Informationen explizit offenbaren. Das bedeutet: Gibt etwa eine Person in einem Auswahlfeld an, welche sexuelle Orientierung sie hat, wäre das weiterhin besonders geschützt. Schließt ein Datenverarbeiter aufgrund vermeintlicher Interessen oder Merkmale auf die mutmaßliche sexuelle Orientierung eines Menschen, würden bisherige Einschränkungen wegfallen.

      Special personal data not protected if inferred, only if explicitly collected as such?

    3. Das gilt etwa für das Training von KI-Systemen mit personenbezogenen Daten. Dies soll künftig auf Basis des berechtigten Interesses von Tech-Konzernen möglich sein. Die noch immer heftig geführte Debatte um möglicherweise notwendige Einwilligungen der Betroffenen hätte sich damit erledigt. Deutlich enger gefasst werden soll auch die Definition von pseudonymisierten Daten.

      Legitimite interest is being stretched it seems? I thought it was pretty strict wrt things an org would be required to collect / needs to collect for a necessary task.

    4. Im neuen Data Act sollen gleich drei weitere Gesetze aufgehen: die Open-Data-Richtlinie, die Verordnung über den freien Fluss nicht-personenbezogener Daten und der Data Governance Act.

      The DA will absorb ODD, DGA and free flow non-personal data Interesting, as ODD is a Directive now. ODD is based on national access regimes, so might be tricky as Reg, unless the focus is on HVD mostly.

    1. Er zijn andere manieren om hardware een eigen nummer te geven, zoals de PUF (physical unclonable function) in een chipontwerp.  PUF-codes worden niet ingeëtst, maar zijn gebaseerd op een statistisch sommetje in het chipontwerp.

      It is not PUF, which is on chip, and sensitive to environmental factors, as well as taking space on the wafer.

    2. Unieke chips helpen de schade te beperken. Het toevoegen van zo’n nummer hoeft niet veel te kosten: dat kan in een later stadium van de chipproductie met goedkope apparatuur.

      the ID is added after the hightech productionphase making it affordable.

    3. De controle van de identificatie vindt plaats op een streng beveiligde server en daarbij worden geen sleutels uitgewisseld, zoals bij gangbare beveiliging. Niemand in de hele productieketen kent de sleutel, ook voor SandGrain is het een geheim. Zelfs al zouden criminelen het systeem weten te omzeilen – wat volgens de SandGrainers niet kan – dan hebben ze toegang tot maar één apparaat. Dat maakt het veel ingewikkelder om een volledig netwerk te saboteren.

      Sandgrain is key less and zero-K. ID is done through a (central?) server though.

      Circumventing it gains access to just one device, not all devices that use the same chip.

    4. Het principe is simpel: een chip met een uniek nummer bewaakt de toegang tot de achterliggende elektronica. Alleen als dat nummer wordt herkend, krijgt de gebruiker toegang tot het systee

      The ID serves as a gatekeeper for access to the system it is used in.

    5. Een nieuw Nederlands initiatief werkt aan chips met een uniek nummer, die als een slot op de deur dienen voor elektronica in cruciale infrastructuur.

      SandGrain (Eindhovense spinoff, Joeri Voets en Sander Koopmans) provides every chip with a unique ID.

    1. un contributo a un ipotetico movimento culturale per un’ecologia della conoscenza in un ambiente mediatico a dir poco controverso. Perché non si pensa bene se si è informati male. Lo sviluppo dell’attuale forma di economia digitale, realizzato con una strategia di innovazioni disattenta alla qualità delle relazioni, ha generato esiti culturali evidentemente negativi, dei quali è tempo che la società si faccia carico, ripensando il sistema dei media in modo da renderlo compatibile con gli obiettivi democratici, ponendo fine al senso di ineluttabilità diffuso.

      The book aims for a cultural movement / ecology of knowledge in spite of the toxic platforms. Because those erode thinking well (title). Innovation now disregards the quality of relationships. (Nice, this chimes with my [[Menselijk en digitaal netwerk zijn gelijksoortig 20200810142551]] and the unfulfilled potential of exploring that congruence). The book proposes to review the mediasystem to make it align with democratic values.

    1. Nel mio libro, questo conduce a costruire un progetto di liberazione dal dominio delle mega-piattaforme attuali e suggerisce la possibilità di costruire molte piattaforme alternative a quelle gigantesche e sfruttatrici che attualmente costituiscono il sistema dei media. Nel libro di Ferraris, questo conduce a una proposta di redistribuzione del valore dei dati, in funzione di un progetto politico che porti a un nuovo, moderno, sistemico e pragmatico comunismo.

      Luca compares two books (his and Ferraris') in how they solve that relative value problem. Luca by proposing dismantling the dominant platforms and replace them with a multitude of others (as the volume of personal data aids its exploitation I presume, spreading it out means having to collect it and collection is costly if users don't actively bring it to you already). Ferraris proposes otoh an active redistribution of the value gained as political project a new 'pragmatic' and modern communism. De Biase proposal seems more achievable imo (in the sense that we're already doing it)

    2. È ovvio: il valore dei dati personali non esiste in sé ma in relazione a un contesto.

      Often not acknowledged what Luca says here: that it's obvious that n:: the value of personal data is not intrinsic but w.r.t. to a specific context of use. It's relative (and that is also why data protection of personal data isn't absolute, but weighed against other factors.) Perhaps capture it as Notie.

    1. Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality—that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact—was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of "implicate" and "explicate" order.[3]

      Implicate and explicate order.

    1. Information Anxiety

      [[Information Anxiety by Richard Saul Wurman]] is the origin of the [[Informatie orden je altijd LATCH 20221106114119]] concept. This is from 1989, so no internet / digital considerations yet. In LATCH I wonder about the place of linking in it. Is the 1986 version aware of Ted Nelson's work 1960s. Or does linking come up in edition 2 in 2000: [[Information Anxiety 2 by Richard Saul Wurman]]

    2. Website of [[Richard Saul Wurman 20251110184844]] Ordered some of his books (not very easy to find) [[Information Anxiety by Richard Saul Wurman]] 1989 [[Information Architect by Richard Saul Wurman]] 1996 [[Information Anxiety 2 by Richard Saul Wurman]] 2000 [[UnderstandingUnderstanding by Richard Saul Wurman]] 2017.

    1. While a plurality of respondents expect to see little or no effect on their organizations’ total number of employees in the year ahead, 32 percent predict an overall reduction of 3 percent or more, and 13 percent predict an increase of that magnitude (Exhibit 17). Respondents at larger organizations are more likely than those at smaller ones to expect an enterprise-wide AI-related reduction in workforce size, while AI high performers are more likely than others are to expect a meaningful change, either in the form of workforce reductions or increases.

      Interesting to see companies vary in their est of how AI will impact workforce. A third expects reduction (but not much, about 3%), 13% an increase (AI related hiring), 43% no change.

    2. with nearly one-third of all respondents reporting consequences stemming from AI inaccuracy (Exhibit 19).

      A third of respondents admit they've seen 'at least once' negative consequences of inaccurate output. That sounds low, as 100% will have been given hallucinations. So 1-in-3 doesn't catch them all before they run-up damage. (vgl Deloitte's work in Australia)

    3. The online survey was in the field from June 25 to July 29, 2025, and garnered responses from 1,993 participants in 105 nations representing the full range of regions, industries, company sizes, functional specialties, and tenures. Thirty-eight percent of respondents say they work for organizations with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. To adjust for differences in response rates, the data are weighted by the contribution of each respondent’s nation to global GDP.

      2k self selected respondents in 50% of nations. 4/10 are big corporates (over 1 billion USD annual revenue)

    4. McKinsey survey on AI use in corporations, esp perceptions and expectations. No actual measurements. I suspect it mostly measure the level of hype that respondents currently buy into.

    1. his work demonstrates for the first time that poisoning attacks instead require a near-constant number of documents regardless of dataset size. We conduct the largest pretraining poisoning experiments to date, pretraining models from 600M to 13B parameters on chinchilla-optimal datasets (6B to 260B tokens). We find that 250 poisoned documents similarly compromise models across all model and dataset sizes, despite the largest models training on more than 20 times more clean data

      The paper shows that it's not a percentage of training data that needs to be poisoned for an attack, but an almost fixed number of documents (250!) which is enough across large models too.

    2. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoning assuming adversaries control a percentage of the training corpus. However, for large models, even small percentages translate to impractically large amounts of data.

      It was previously assumed that a certain percentage of data needed to be 'poisoned' to attack an LLM. This becomes impractical quickly with the size of LLMs.

    1. LLM benchmarks are essential for tracking progress and ensuring safety in AI, but most benchmarks don't measure what matters.

      Paper concludes most benchmarks used for LLMs to establish progress are mistargeted / leave out aspects that matter.

    1. Her point is this: Metaphors are so often visual in nature, that we tend to equate understanding something with the ability to visualise it. Which explain why Einstein–always a visual thinkers–hated quantum mechanics. Because while the standard model helps making perfect mathematical sense of particle physics, it’s simply not possible to visualise what it proves to be true. But here’s the thing: metaphors don’t have to be visual in nature, and in fact going beyond the visual often allows us to naturally accommodate ambiguity. Trompe l’oeil images are just as maddening and hard to let go of as trying to visualise a quark that exists simultaneously in multiple places, but anyone can attest to feelings of ‘being torn‘ or ‘in two minds‘. Time is another metaphor that is notoriously hard to visualise, which hasn’t stopped anyone from experiencing it. Again it’s also a phenomenon that most of us feel behave in a highly irrational manner; slowing to a creep in one moment only to jump into action the next. The point that Julia Ravanis makes, the perspective she helps me see, is that quantum mechanics doesn’st have to ‘not make sense’. That the act of sense-making includes a chosen perspective, and that being mindful that there are more than one possible, even within science, means that the boundaries between it and the humanities are crumbling.

      [[Julia Ravanis]] in [[Skönheten i Kaos by Julia Ravanis]] is here said to argue that a way of moving past 'quantum mechanics does not make sense' is by letting go of default (visual) metaphors and using other metaphors that can embrace ambiguity. This sounds somewhat like [[Is het nieuwe uit te leggen in taal van het oude 20031104104340]] or even [[Avoid greedy reductionism 20041114065928]] accusation levelled here at Einstein.

    2. That the act of sense-making includes a chosen perspective, and that being mindful that there are more than one possible, even within science, means that the boundaries between it and the humanities are crumbling.

      overtones of sense making, and of SC style boundary crossing, with the notion of a chosen perspective, and [[Multidimensionaal gaan ipv platslaan 20200826121720]] as means. #verdiepen

    1. Aurora outperforms operational forecasts in predicting air quality, ocean waves, tropical cyclone tracks and high-resolution weather

      Aurora said to extrapolate for air quality, bathymetry, cyclone tracking and 'high resolution' weather (I suspect they mean the opposite, check in paper).

    2. Aurora is a machine learning model that can predict atmospheric variables, such as temperature. It is a foundation model, which means that it was first generally trained on a lot of data and then can be adapted to specialized atmospheric forecasting tasks with relatively little data. We provide four such specialized versions: one for medium-resolution weather prediction, one for high-resolution weather prediction, one for air pollution prediction, and one for ocean wave prediction.

      MS created foundation model Aurora, trained on over '1 million hours of diverse geophysical data' (they mean 1 million compute hours??), to use to predict atmospheric variables (temp) in August 2024.

    1. The files will have the same EXIF data they had when originally updated. Any details added to your photos after upload will be compiled in a separate JSON file.

      The downloads will include original exif data. If that has been altered (e.g. location or time (NB I adjusted some for diff timezones)) the alterations will be provided as JSON

    2. Flickr downloads of my images can be done: - by selecting 500 images at a time in Camera roll. This would be I think the best approach for timeline approaches. You get a downloadable zip. - by downloading an album. as zip - by downloading all my data, as zip. The text implies it will be in chunks of 500 images too, so perhaps also chronological? (in my case 87 zip files or so)

    1. Kommer den artificiella intelligensen att bli bättre på att tänka än den mänskliga? Kognitionsvetaren Peter Gärdenfors förklarar varför så inte är fallet.  Den mänskliga intelligensen består av en rad olika färdigheter och specialiteter som har förfinats under tusentals år. Mycket återstår innan den artificiella intelligensen kan mäta sig med det tänkande som inte bara människor utan även djur har. När vi förstår att vår intelligens är en bred palett av många olika förmågor ter sig tanken på att AI-tekniken trumfar oss i schack och kan skriva avancerade texter inte lika skrämmande. Utifrån ett brett forskningsunderlag förklarar Gärdenfors varför AI-tekniken inte kan och inte kommer att kunna tänka på samma sätt som människor och djur gör. »Peter Gärdenfors tilldelas Natur & Kulturs debattbokspris 2025 för att han fördjupar AI-debattens centrala begrepp och utmanar dess utgångspunkter. Med lätt språk och stabil lärdom blottlägger han tänkandets evolutionärt slipade mekanismer, och skärper bilden av vad intelligens är och vilken plats tekniken intar i vår digitala värld.« – Juryns motivering

      [[Kan AI tänka by Peter Gärdenfors]] via Sven Dahlstrand, dahlstrand.net Publ okt 2024 Seeks to define what thinking actually is, and how that plays out in other animals and humans. The 2nd part goes into sofrware systems and AI and how they work in comparison.

    1. Skönheten i kaosSkönheten i kaos (Natur och Kultur 2021) är Julias debutbok.I den tar hon ner den teoretiska fysiken på jorden ochjämför den med mänskliga erfarenheter. Förklaringar avsvarta hål och sammanflätade elektroner varvas medreflektioner om längtan och frustration, om att bli kär ochkänna andra människors blick på en själv.

      [[Skönheten i Kaos by Julia Ravanis]] (pub 2021, Swedish) Debut. Essay collection joining theoretical physics w philosophy Explains concepts like black holes, quantum entanglement, and string theory in an accessible form. (via Sven Dahlstrand, dahlstrand.net)

  2. Oct 2025
    1. LLMs aren’t capable of learning on-the-job, so no matter how much we scale, we’ll need some new architecture to enable continual learning.And once we have it, we won’t need a special training phase — the agent will just learn on-the-fly, like all humans, and indeed, like all animals.This new paradigm will render our current approach with LLMs obsolete.

      Richard Sutton on LLM dev: a) core problem is LLMs can't learn from use. Diff architecture necessary for continual learning b) if you've got continual learning then current big-bang training no longer useful. facit: LLM approach not sustainable and dead end.

    1. Stuff to unpack here, and read the three posts by [[Valdis Krebs]]. [[Stephen Downes]] draws analogy between social and neuronal networks, and suggests same underlying logic. This I think points back to my notion that fully embracing the network metaphor/thinking in tech hasn't happened and would be a valuable path forward out of current upheaval. Social networks etc have a certain symmetry that internet platforms ignore.

  3. Sep 2025
    1. Former UKIP MEP Nathan GIll admits to being bribed by Russia to make pro-Russian / anti-Ukrainian statements. The person carrying the money, Oleh Volosjyn also has ties to Dutch extreme right FvD party. Dutch secret service previously stated knowing about at least one Dutch politican having been bribed. Possibly De Graaff, then a MEP for FvD

    1. Main points: - Russia does not care about number of people lost, but cares about losing revenue. - Russia is a (imperialist) petrol-state, so Ukraine hits revenue there. - Ukraine's weapon production is increasingly independent from both US and Chinese production - Their drone production is fully home grown and has tight feedback loops to experiences in the field (home grown meaning that they also create their own pcb's from scratch etc.) - EU is funding / supporting that - Trump is words only, and is letting Biden admin sanctions run out without renewing them.

    1. open source dependencies as supply chain risk and attack surface, vs how, here Obsidian mitigates against them: - reimplement small functions directly in your own code - fork modules and maintain as own code base - large libraries include version locked files - strongly limit the 3rd party packages that ship in your code to others

      For those lockfiled dependencies have a process for updates (and for onboarding a new one), and don't quickly update what already works. Use time as a buffer: issues with 3rd party stuff will surface over time.

    1. Spanish cloud service provider a la Nextcloud and Proton. I hate it when website don't actually contain any info about legal entities running the show. Their LinkedIn profile says they're in Valencia, but the site doesn't mention where they are located.

    1. EU General Court rules on narrow challenge to EU-US data agreement letting it stand. Bound to be appealed at CJEU. NOYB thinks General Court departed strongly from earlier CJEU decisions (Schrems I and II) as current agreement doesn't really have new formulations, and that General Court accepts the independence DPCR which is not what the current reality in US is.

    1. In other words: it comes down to lack of agency. When we care about something, but we perceive futility in our efforts to change it, our only resort is to lash out.

      This quote is aimed at negative interaction wrt open source coding projects, but it fits resentment fueled populism too. Vgl [[Agency tekorten 20160818092829]] and [[Agency armoede digital poverty 20150819204958]]

  4. Aug 2025
    1. During one of those conversations Adosh pointed me to Demo, a “grammar” for understanding organisations as sets of commitments, agreements and transaction between people, by a group at Delft University. It builds on the speech-act theory of Jurgen Habermas (in turn building on Wittgenstein and Searle). As Elmine did her M Sc. on Habermas in relation to the type of communication possible in weblogs, this of course triggered my interest. I’ll try and dig a bit deeper into it in the coming weeks.

      this may be relevant to me now again, wrt governance frameworks in data spaces.

    1. US State Dept politicized human rights reports making them useless globally and aligning with China's perspective on human rights basically. Entire categories of reporting eliminated (seemingly as it would also contrast with domestic policies in the USA), and odd results such as listing Germany as worse than El Salvador. Mostly bc of things like treating any moderation of hate speech as censorship and limiting of freedom of speech, equating freedom of speech w freedom of consequences and responsibility. A peculiar US hang-up that happens to align with what makes bigtech platforms profitable. Another example of USA soft power not just being eroded but removed.

    1. So long, and thanks for all the fish,

      This is what the dolphins said after they were unsuccessful in warning humanity of Earth's impending demolition by the Vogons, and left.

      Is Dohmke just doing a nerdy goodbye here unaware of the context of the phrase or is this the actual message after various paragraphs of corporate marketing speak?

    2. https://web.archive.org/web/20250812045221/https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-github/

      GitHub CEO steps down, will not be replaced, as GitHub will be folded into MS' CoreAI unit. This means attention will be unfocused wrt GitHub. Inertia will keep it upright for a while I'm sure, perhaps until GitHub is once more repositioned, but it may well be the end of it. Moves like this put community infrastructure as GitHub is under the hood and makes it invisible as just another piece of plumbing while ignoring the core role users have in its functioning.

      (Dohmke exited German startup HockeyApp to MS at the end of 2014 and moved to MS as part of that deal)

    1. Successful tests have already been completed by both the Eclipse Dataspace Connector (EDC) and the TNO-developed connector, demonstrating that multiple independent implementations can interoperate effectively.

      TNO connector I've played with, but wasn't convinced yet, as it assumes extremely simple 1-on-1 data transactions which will hardly ever be a real case. The control layer seems ok though.

    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250810110826/https://gregmorris.co.uk/2024/05/08/exporting-highlights-from.html

      Greg Morris with useful / working description of how to export annotations from my Kobo device (by default, Kobo only syncs annotations from books bought at Kobo platform to your account, not from sideloaded books). Edited the Kobo settings and then was able to export annotations. They do not contain the location for an annotation, so you're referencing is 'blind'. Also mentions a Calibre plugin for annotations I have not tried yet.

    1. Nan Shepherd wrote 'The Living Mountain' in the 1940s, which only got published in 1977. Book was influence on Robert MacFarlane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Macfarlane_(writer) ([[Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane]] was mentioned in [[Wayfinding by Michael Bond]] and recently 2025 published Is a River Alive ([[Rights of nature - Wikipedia]])? Vgl [[Landschap is medium niet achtergrond 20240731205412]] [[Exploratie zit in onze natuur 20240731202104]]

      [[The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd]]

    1. Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview John Danaher & Henrik Skaug Sætra 2023

      The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how, exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging field of inquiry by developing a synoptic taxonomy of the mechanisms of techno-moral change. It argues that technology affects moral beliefs and practices in three main domains: decisional (how we make morally loaded decisions), relational (how we relate to others) and perceptual (how we perceive situations). It argues that across these three domains there are six primary mechanisms of techno-moral change: (i) adding options; (ii) changing decision-making costs; (iii) enabling new relationships; (iv) changing the burdens and expectations within relationships; (v) changing the balance of power in relationships; and (vi) changing perception (information, mental models and metaphors). The paper also discusses the layered, interactive and second-order effects of these mechanisms.

      DOI 10.1007/s10677-023-10397-x

      Mechanisms of Techno-moral Change in Zotero PDF

  5. Jul 2025
    1. Vid overall is a bit meh, but the label clarity maximisation is useful to express the difference to productivity aims. Then starts to idealise these types of people as analog first, ruthless curators, and then as cutting out social stuff bc not helping their thinking. That's the meh. Puts purity porn as replacement of productivity porn. Joan Westenberg https://www.joanwestenberg.com/

      Does point to [[Rust is geen restpost 20200531155900]] and reducing friction wrt (creative) thinking, as well as 'output' measured in insights etc not artefacts. Agreed, yet ultimately artefacts are the only output, also of thinking. More like Matuschak , and my k-work artisan approach. (Joan Westenberg posts in a strict rhythm themselves, so do measure artefacts as output too)

      via [[Frank Meeuwsen]] in https://frankmeeuwsen.com/2025/07/28/paper-trails-weekoverzicht-juli.html

    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250708085929/https://ibestuur.nl/artikel/gemeentelijke-chatbots-arbeidsintensief-en-minder-intelligent-dan-gehoopt/

      iBestuur artikel over Q v chatbots in gem websites. Kort antwoord: waardeloos. Bovendien lijkt het dat iedereen zelf maar wat kiest ipv dat er coord is. Veel gems duren 'experiment' er op te plakken om vervolgens wel de gevolgen daarvan op hun burgers af te wentelen ongevraagd (ergernis, tijdsverlies), en zonder dat er een experiment is in de zin van hypothese empirie en evaluatie

    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250702121628/https://theecologist.org/2023/nov/01/when-idiot-savants-do-climate-economics

      William Nordhaus is the source of generally accepted modeling of the economic cost of climate urgency and inaction, yet increasingly his models are seen as wildly wrong, not accounting for asymmetric risks and uncertainty (and using GDP as main yardstick it seems). Reads like a linear modeling which disregards cascades and non-linear complex causality chains.

  6. Jun 2025
    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250630134724/https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/

      'agent washing' Agentic AI underperforms, getting at most 30% tasks right (Gemini 2.5-Pro) but mostly under 10%.

      Article contains examples of what I think we should agentic hallucination, where not finding a solution, it takes steps to alter reality to fit the solution (e.g. renaming a user so it was the right user to send a message to, as the right user could not be found). Meredith Witthaker is mentioned, but from her statement I saw a key element is missing: most of that access will be in clear text, as models can't do encryption. Meaning not just the model, but the fact of access existing is a major vulnerability.

    1. Mogelijk [[Aan te schaffen boeken 2025]]

      published 2021. "critique of the infosphere"

      Vgl [[Physical and Information Landscape 20060302150900]]

      Byung-Chul Han (1959) https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byung-Chul_Han German university prof. phil. German title: Undinge. Umbrüche der Lebenswelt. Ullstein, Berlin 2021. ISBN 978-3-550-20125-7.

      e-book at Dussmann: https://www.kulturkaufhaus.de/en/detail/ISBN-2244025495146/Han-Byung-Chul/Undinge

      Minima Moralia der Informationsgesellschaft: Heute bewohnen wir nicht mehr Erde und Himmel, sondern Google Earth und Cloud. Informationen beherrschen unsere Lebenswelt. Wir berauschen uns regelrecht an Kommunikation. Byung-Chul Hans Kritik der Informationsgesellschaft klärt uns über die Folgen unseres Informations- und Kommunikationsrausches auf.Schon vor Jahrzehnten stellte der Medientheoretiker Vilém Flusser fest: »Undinge dringen gegenwärtig von allen Seiten in unsere Umwelt, und sie verdrängen die Dinge. Man nennt diese Undinge Informationen.« Die Dinge rücken heute immer mehr in den Hintergrund der Aufmerksamkeit. Die Welt als Infosphäre überlagert die Welt als Dingsphäre. Der Übergang vom Ding zum Unding verändert massiv unsere Wahrnehmung und Weltbeziehung. Byung-Chul Hans neuer Essay kreist um Dinge und Undinge. Er entwickelt sowohl eine Philosophie des Smartphones als auch eine Kritik der Künstlichen Intelligenz aus ungewohnter Perspektive. Gleichzeitig wendet er sich der Magie der Dinge zu und reflektiert über die Stille, die im Informationslärm verlorengeht.

    1. Caesar, L., Sakschewski, B., Anderson, L. S., Beringer, T., Braun, J., Dennis, D., Gerten, A., Heilemann, A., Kaiser, J., Kitzmann, N. H., Loriani, S., Lucht, W., Ludescher, j., Martin, M., Mathesius, S., Paolucci, A., te Wierik, S., & Rockström, J. (2024). Planetary Health Check Report 2024 (1). Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/rest/items/item_30275_5/component/file_30276/content Rockström, J. (2024a). Reflections on the past and future of whole Earth system science. Global Sustainability, 7, e32.

      https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/rest/items/item_30275_5/component/file_30276/content Planetary Health Check Report 2024

    2. Grund für die Nervosität, von der Rockström spricht, sind Entwicklungen der Jahre 2023 und 2024 wie die sprunghafte Erhöhung der Temperaturen der Luft und der Meeresoberfläche und das Umkippen großer Waldgebiete von CO2-Senken zu CO2-Quellen. Was sich gerade im Erdsystem verändert, ist wissenschaftlich noch nicht ganz verstanden. Das Risiko dafür, dass dieses System sich so unwiderruflich von den Holozänbedingungen entfernt, dass sich auch Holozän-ähnliche Bedingungen nicht mehr aufrechterhalten lassen, ist deutlich größer geworden. Ausführlich informiert darüber der „Planetary Health Check Report 2024“ (Caesar et al., 2024), zu dessen Herausgebern Rockström gehört.

      The last 2 yrs saw non-linear changes. While scientifically not yet fully understood, risk for moving out of Holocene conditions became higher.

      Planetary Health Check Report, Caesar et al 2024

    3. Das Konzept der planetary boundaries, das vor allem auf Johan Rockström zurückgeht, integriert die Ergebnisse dieser Forschungen zu einem diagnostischen Framework: Es erlaubt festzustellen, wie groß das Risiko ist, dass das Erdsystem sich unwiderruflich von den Bedingungen des Holozän entfernt.

      Planetary boundaries as a concept mostly coined by Johan Rockström, Heinz says.

      The concept of planetary boundaries is a diagnostic framework for how far / irreparably we're moving out of the Holocene climate conditions.

    4. Johan Rockströms

      Johan Rockström is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam. it says at linked page.

    1. 'It turns out the company had no AI and instead was just a group of Indian developers pretending to write code as AI,

      'AI' softw dev company, is actually a pool of 700 India based coders. Exposed because they couldn't meet payroll....

  7. May 2025
    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250510102207/https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2025/05/08/literacy-practices-a-matter-of-community/

      [[Doug Belshaw]] responds to [[Stephen Downes]] wrt literacy and how to see it / define it.

      Belshaw ties literacy to a community of literates, Downes is more focused on literacy as individual skills in reading and writing. Skills are of course individual in principle. Yet there's a diff between rod fishing and reading/writing: rod fishing's personal use value remains flat regardless the number of capable rod fishers, whereas the value of reading/writing increases in a community in which such individual skills have spread. [[Howard Rheingold]] defs literacy as skill+community. [[Geletterdheid als gemeenschappelijke vaardigheid 20100705123145]] Literacy as a communal skill.

      Doug points to [[Etienne Wenger]] 1991 / 1998 work on CoPs. CoPs go further (than a network effect in skill utility spread across a community) in positioning learning and k transfer as embedded in a community of practitioners, and that community being prerequisite for that learning. Wrt literacy this brings on board the cultural existing/evolving practices around literacy, and thus as Doug holds values and ethics.

      My pos thus is a third pos, between Doug and Stephen, closer to Howard's point: the network effect of a skill as determining element if something is a literacy. Reading/writing has a powerful network effect, adding readers/writers increases the agency / utility that reading/writing skills provide. Rod fishing doesn't. Stephen sticks way closer to skills, imo to the point of literacy being just another word for reading/writing skills but not different from skills. Doug goes further than the network effect putting the community more central, which importantly allows to bring the evolution of a literacy over time, contexts and geography in view. Doug and I both see literacy as a social tech. In my take various things called literacy don't much exist perhaps (indiv skills aren't lit, and where spreading those skills doesn't bring much network effect), but there can always be CoP like groupings where social learning around such otherwise indiv skills takes place. The network effect can take place without a CoP too. However the communal layer brings in additional dynamics that will influence lit. As deleniation between communities (of practice and otherwise), or in the form of non-lit people being largely excluded from the community/society they live in.

    1. Probably not, given Google’s long history of interpreting multilingual as serial monolingual (see this 2007 presentation at Google by Stephanie Booth pointing this same stuff out), ignoring that multilingual people tend to change languages throughout their activities even for just a single word or short phrase. (I don’t have Dutch, English or German days or topics, in the case of books I may want to find the German original of an English translation, or want to search for a specific thing in French because I know it exists, while also interested in any Dutch translation that might be available or the Italian original. My notes are always in multiple languages.)

      Multilingualism is never serial monolingual. I use my languages all mixed up, it's a tapestry in which different languages can provide different nuances, associations, emotions. A tapestry. As I wrote here Google has never understood that throughout its history.

  8. Apr 2025
    1. Overview of Rights of Nature, of which Buen Vivir is an expression. parallels in indigenous cultures, religion and human rights law.

      Mentions a range of countries that have them, but doesn't mention legal entity it seems at first glance.

    1. deals encapsulated in the concept of Buen Vivir and the recognition of the rights of Mother Nature draw from ancient Andean indigenous traditions that pre-date the Spanish colonial era.

      Buen vivir ties in with pre-colonial Andean identity aspects, which was a success factor, I suspect as convening call too. Vgl [[SC Identity work 20230907073823]] and [[Convening call 20230908135351]] Bolivia's progress also strongly tied to indigenous population and lifting themselves out of poverty.

    2. Bolivia’s 2011 Law of Mother Nature was the first national-level legislation in the world to bestow rights to the natural world

      Bolivia adopted a 2011 law of mother nature which gives the natural world legal rights.

      • [ ] find that law and what is says
    3. Bolivian Constitution of 2009 recognises Buen Vivir as a principle to guide state action

      Bolivia adopted Buen Vivir in its constitution in 2009 as guiding principle for state policy.

    4. rooted in the cosmovision of the Quechua peoples of the Andes, of “sumac kawsay”, a kichwa term which denotes the fullness of life, rooted in community and harmony with other people and nature

      Buen Vivir has its roots in the Andes Quechua peoples view of life as 'sumac kawsay'

    5. The Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008 declares “We … hereby decide to build a new form of public coexistence, in diversity and in harmony with nature, to achieve the good way of living.”

      Buen Vivir as term comes from a sentence in the 2008 constitution of Ecuador, equating harmony with nature as the good way of living.

    1. Hoe kijken (juridische VN-)experts op het gebied van RvdN aan tegen de toepasbaarheid vanhet concept in de gemeente Eijsden- Margraten?

      interessant expliciete formulering: auteur heeft hier denk ik gericht iets voor ogen. Welke VN experts?

      #openvraag is natuur rechtspersoon iets dat VN aandacht aan geeft?

    2. Hoe is het concept wereldwijd al toegepast in wet- en regelgeving? Wat is de historischecontext in deze gebieden? Waarom is RvdN hier toegepast?

      Voor fase 1 worden 9 vragen gesteld, maar dit is de enige belangrijke: hoe landt dit elders in wet/regelgeving? Hoe wordt een nieuwe rechtspersoon daadwerkelijk gecreëerd. Of is het niet een echt nieuwe? Maar een civic org met een bestuur dat zich opstelt als de rivier/lagune/gebied?

    3. Er wordt dan pasonderzoek gedaan naar de mogelijkheden voor implementatie, en dus naar het juridische -, enbeleidsvraagstuk. Fase 1 van het onderzoek dient enkel als verkenning over de passendheid van hetconcept RvdN in de gemeente Eijsden-Margraten

      Fase 2 kijkt pas juridisch tav uitvoering (tikje vreemd want landelijke wetgeving zal bepalend zijn, de lit studie in f1 zal toch ook hierover moeten gaan: kan het in NL?) Stelt verwachtingen Fase 1 laag.

    4. eze eerste verkenningsfase is enkelgericht op het uitdiepen van enerzijds de academische literatuur over het onderwerp, anderzijds ophet overzichtelijk krijgen van de belanghebbenden en diens kennis over de regio

      literatuurstudie en stakeholder analyse in fase 1.

    5. RvdN als concept benadrukt het benoemenvan de natuur als rechtspersoon als manier om deze beter te beschermen. Als de natuuronafhankelijk van diens belang voor anderen bestaansrecht krijgt, wat de intrinsieke waardeversterkt, is dit uiteindelijk positief voor het behoud van een gezond leefgebied voor alle soorten inhet gebied (inclusief de mens)

      Onderzoeksoorstel is verder behoorlijk vaagtaal, maar hier staat het zinnetje dan wel expliciet dat het om rechtspersoon gaat.

    6. Rechten van de Natuur (RvdN) is gebaseerd op Latijns-Amerikaans gedachtegoed bekend als BuenVivir (vertaling: goed leven), waarin gelijkwaardig samenleven met de natuur een actief onderdeelvan de maatschappij is. RvdN is op meerdere plekken wereldwijd geïmplementeerd voor duurzameontwikkeling met een lange-termijnsvisie.

      Inspiratiebron is niet N-Zealand rivier, maar de Buen Vivir gedacht uit Z-Amerika. Label Rechten van de Natuur RvdN.

    7. De motie van PRO verzoekt de gemeente Eijsden-Margraten om onderzoek te doen naar dejuridische en praktische haalbaarheid van het toekennen van rechtspersoonlijkheid aan de natuur inde gemeente Eijsden-Margraten

      Gemeentemotie ging om onderzoek naar mogelijkheid lokale natuur status v rechtspersoon te geven.

    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250428062124/https://nos.nl/artikel/2565263-nieuw-zeelandse-rivier-met-rechten-inspiratie-voor-wereldwijde-beweging

      Beetje raar art. omdat aan het eind blijkt dat we ook in EU en NL dit soort initiatieven hebben, en het tot die tijd als een soort curiositeit beschrijft.

      #openvraag hoe kregen de genoemde voorbeelden status v rechtspersoon eigenlijk (is het via een bestaande vorm, stichting bijv, of is het een nieuwe vorm, met aanpassing wetten?)

      In 38 landen voorbeelden zegt artikel (Heeft Karl Schroeder er een lijst van wellicht?)

      2017 Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui) rivier krijgt rechtspersoon status, N-Zealand 2022 Mar Menor lagune, Spanje, eerste EU voorbeeld 2023 Eijsden-Margraten motie

      Vgl [[Stealing Worlds by Karl Schroeder]] en [[Email Stop Ecocide International Team Massive EU News 28-3-202411:05:08]] mbt ecocide

    1. Use social media to shape political narratives. But also, unplug. Switch on to political aeroplane mode. Think long-term. Don’t get caught in the news cycle or buried under the “flood the zone” avalanche of absurdities populists use to wear down their critics.

      Some contrast with previous. As news cycle is also source of stories to collect in previous point, no? Focus on actions not words the diff?

    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250423134653/https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/publicaties/2025/04/22/het-overheidsbrede-standpunt-voor-de-inzet-van-generatieve-ai Rijksstandpunt genAI, mede gebaseerd op IEC advies IPO. Niettemin wordt het hier lijkt me behoorlijk vrij gegeven, en de formulering klinkt heel los. Gaat problemen opleveren, want een bmw die met genAI speelt bij het opstellen van een stuk het voor zichzelf als 'experiment' labelt of 'innovatie' heeft het voor zich daarmee gerationaliseerd. Never mind dat experimenten gecontroleerde omstandigheden vergen, en innovatie een gedeelde intentie moet hebben in de org. Dit voelt heel zacht aan, staan de juiste dingen in desondanks

      [[When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst]]

    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250414081426/https://blog.joewoods.dev/uncategorized/vague-list-action-list/

      Joe Wood keeps a 'vague' list of tasks that are equally important as other more tangible tasks but lack clarity about what steps to take. He added this within his GTD implementation. Interesting, as I notice I tend to put off important things when I don't have a clear path to execution yet (and the next action would be to think about those steps). I also think such vague actions may actually not be actions but projects lacking definition. It makes beginning harder, and keeping a vague list might help address it. I think I might use it as a tag in tasks, not as a separate list.

    1. I do, however, still use a memory palace as a mnemonic device on most days. It’s a pretty short one — just the floors in my office building — but there’s only one place where I need to use it — the only place where I don’t have access to my todo list: Shower thoughts. I do some of my best thinking in the shower; the freedom from other distractions is probably a big part of it. Inevitably, I end up with a list of multiple, disconnected thoughts that I want to take action on: new ways to approach work I want to do, ideas for fun new projects, or things to look into. All of these end up feeling really important, so I cram them into my short-term memory and inevitably sprint out of the shower to go write them down somewhere more permanent.

      Joe Woods in response to my posting asking about [[Wat wil ik onthouden mempalace 20250323081216]] says he uses #mempal for remembering thoughts that come to him in the shower. I recognise it as a place where no capturing can take place, and ideas do come. Intriguing application. I wonder how many places he has in his mem palace to store ideas like that.

    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250401090529/https://pho.spookygirl.boo/phame/post/view/43/federated_platforms_need_defense_against_corporations/

      On defending federated projects / commons projects against EEE by corporations. Mentions XMPP as example of the danger, as well as SMTP (#openvraag waarom is SMTP een voorbeeld van corporate capture?) Mentions 3 defences: - Ensure that governance requires majority consensus in the network of stakeholders for protocol design adoptions (increases the cost of capture) - Ensure projects reside in an entity (foundation) independent of corporate funding (counter example would be Mozilla's financial management over the years, but valid point money w strings is always an issue). - Use contributor license agreements, so that output is owned by the project (meaning you can kick people out when needed. This is all at the project level. From a #netag perspective there's also something wrt how you deal with the social bounding of a group around a project. Author warns about corporate people participating without announcing they represent a corp. Also mentions that where corp contribs initially may be from aligned people, at any point they might be replaced by other corp people that don't have the same agenda as the person that initiated the contribs.

    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250401051031/https://ruk.ca/sound/so-are-you-harvesting-hours-day-which-youre-dedicating-yourself

      Two things: - the notion of 'harvest' i.e. both putting what you created into the world with yourself and acknowledging what you did/created, celebrate it in some way. Not what I do at all, I tend to switch to the next thing and forget about the previous. - the notion of seeing your daily practice as practicing (NB vgl [[Deliberate practice 20220715150100]] which is disregarded here, so the rote / routine parts of your daily work are swept up as part of practicing.), asking what it is you're practicing at becoming (as both in intentionally, and by how you get shaped by what you do, and contrasting them both for reflection). Sees the practicing as a type of harvest of point one.

      This sounds like gratitude journaling, daily check-outs, interstitial journaling, and such but tied to [[% Interessevelden 20200523102304]]. Also sounds like [[Compound interest of habits 20200916065059]]

  9. Mar 2025
    1. A proposal to revive short wave radio, esp to overcome splinternet and internet blocking conditions. Mentions radio transmitted text. Mentioning ham transceivers capable of this. Seems a suggestion, of which none of the parts currently are in place (not broadcasters, not equipment, not antennaparks (RNWO shut down their stuff in 2012, since then a tiny part goes on internet only), not receivers. Interesting though, re #2025/03/23 Ius Winterwandeling dinner conversation on SSB.

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    1. In tech, we have four of these constraints, anti-enshittificatory sources of discipline that make products and services better, pay workers more, and keep executives’ and shareholders' wealth from growing at the expense of customers, suppliers and labor.

      1) markets 2) regulation 3) interoperability 4) labor

    2. And I think there's good news there, because if enshittification isn't the result of a new kind of evil person, or the great forces of history bearing down on the moment to turn everything to shit, but rather the result of specific policy choices, then we can reverse those policies, make better ones and emerge from the enshittocene, consigning the enshitternet to the scrapheap of history, a mere transitional state between the old, good internet, and a new, good internet.

      enshittocene enshitternet bit too cute I think. Valid point: if it's policy that results in it, we can roll things back. Also w the current Trump chaos-admin there's opportunity as US is dismantling international agreements, making room for other nations / EU regs to disalign too.

    3. I think we created a crimogenic environment, a perfect breeding pool for the most pathogenic practices in our society, that have therefore multiplied, dominating decision-making in our firms and states

      'crimogenic', indeed, I think e.g. all current adtech is illegal in the EU, except it hasn't been tried in court much yet.

    4. I believe that enshittification is caused by changes not to technology, but to the policy environment

      [[Cory Doctorow]] exploring enshittification in a third talk. Says here it's enabled by changes in the policy environment rather than technology. This as tech platforms started doing it at the same time, not in the same phase of their existence.

  10. Feb 2025
    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20250220082618/https://koreapro.org/2025/02/the-death-of-like-minded-diplomacy-and-what-it-means-for-south-korea/

      Korean perspective on the shifting geopolitics wrt US shifting to explicit transactionalism/bullying. n:: Mentions 'like-mindedness' as principle, and Nordic/Netherlands as source of this term. First time I see it mentioned this directly as a guiding principle, though in practice this is reflexive here in NL (e.g. for JTC25 I also first approached DK for their take).

    1. As I told the Washington Post, Musk is distorting and then weaponizing open spending data using social media, which Trump is then picking up and validating as “corruption.” This is what the Sunlight Foundation warned about in 2017, but on steroids. Authoritarian governments on the far-left (communism) and far-right (fascism) use weaponized transparency to intimidate civil society organizations and the press, create fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and cloud public understanding of public facts and policy outcomes. We defined weaponized transparency in 2017 as the use of data disclosure as a tool for division and public intimidation, rather than a means for achieving transparency and accountability. That holds up.In 2017, we observed that “the disclosures ordered by the Trump White House support a political and racial narrative advanced by an administration that has repeatedly dissembled about violence, fabricated narratives about vulnerable populations, and explicitly vowed to ban Muslims from entering the United States of America. Modern history has repeatedly demonstrated that vilifying vulnerable populations, racial minorities or minority religions has led to the worst chapters of our shared history.”This remains true.

      Weaponized transparency, as defined by [[Alex Howard]] / Sunlight Foundation. Disclosure as tool for public intimidation and division, as opposed to transparency and accountability. It happened under the previous Trump admin, and now returns at a orders of magnitude larger scale.

    1. The same link means different things coming from different people. Knowing who’s recommending something adds context to a link:

      [[Infostrat Filtering 20050928171301]] [[Je informatie is een expressie van je netwerk 20230904121816]] [[Wiens notie van informatie leid je interpretatie 20230905111913]] [[Optimal unfamiliarity 20040107122600]] [[Andermans tags zijn een maat van social distance 20200818124518]] [[Informatie overvloed 20051122162501]] [[Correlatie tussen netwerken en informatie 20230904121802]] [[Weblogs as community info filter 20041117122100]] [[Online sharing is signification of stories 20190614154934]] [[Andermans perceptie van significantie is mijn signaal 20190614154731]] #blogdit

    1. This outlines running githubcopilot like functions from my locl models, and making a copilot subscription superfluous

      -[ ] explore using Continue as copilot replacement in VSCode and use local model thru LMstudio or ollama #webbeheer -[ ] cancel github copilot subscription #webbeheer #finance

  11. Jan 2025
    1. He said Meta would “work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more”.

      This is the key statement. Increasingly Meta is pushed towards accountability, including inside the US. That push is bad for their business bc their core business model is founded on factors that can only keep 'growing' if there is no accountability.

    2. He cited Europe as a place with “an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative”

      Meta's step is also a hedge against DSA fall-out. Whereas the current US gov was acting towards similar conditions removing contrast beween DSA en US regs, increasing the contrast allows Meta to be a victim. Using the word 'censorship' is a tell in itself, as that is not what the DSA does.

    3. Angie Drobnic Holan, the director of the International Fact-Checking Network which certified the factcheckers used by Meta, denied factcheckers had been biased and said: “That attack line comes from those who feel they should be able to exaggerate and lie without rebuttal or contradiction.”

      Yeah, moving moderation teams from California to Texas just signals from the right everything looks biased to the left, because everything is to their left, and you're adding bias to make it seem in line with where the US Overton window has steadily shifted to since 1980.

    4. We are looking closely at Meta’s announcement impacting its US platform. The UK’s Online Safety Act will oblige them to remove illegal content and content harmful to children here in the UK, and we continue to urge social media companies to counter the spread of misinformation and disinformation hosted on their platforms.”

      Meta might be running into UK OSA too. - [ ] zoek de UK online safety act op en vergelijk structuur met DSA #eudata #30mins

    1. Sword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice: Behavioral habits of discipline and persistence; Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care; Social habits of collegiality and collaboration; and Emotional habits of positivity and pleasure. Building on this “BASE,” she illuminates the emotional complexity of the writing process and exposes the lack of writing support typically available to early-career academics. She also lays to rest the myth that academics must produce safe, conventional prose or risk professional failure. The successful writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking rewarded. Grounded in empirical research and focused on sustainable change, Air & Light & Time & Space offers a customizable blueprint for refreshing personal habits and creating a collegial environment where all writers can flourish.

      via Chris Aldrich h. annotations. Author posits succesful academic writing rest on behavioral, artisanal, social and emotional habits. That last part of this blurb suggest a connection to [[Personal Knowledge by Michael Polanyi]]'s point.

    1. [[Moral Progress by Philip Kitcher]] reads, based on both their blurbs, like a continuation of [[The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher]], exploring how actual ethical changes have occurred in time. Moves towards method rather than big-T truth (in line w social evolution perspective of the Ethical Project) and strengthens the pragmatism in pragmatic naturalism. 10yrs between the 2 books. Blurb mentions progressing away from something rather than to something, which chimes neatly with the evolutionary perspective of moving away from being hindered by a selective pressure. The attention to moral progress as method brings it closer to my notion of [[Ethics As A Practice (EaaP) 20200819161530]]

    1. Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of brilliant thinkers, we should see our ethical practices as evolving over tens of thousands of years, as members of our species have worked out how to live together and prosper. Elaborating this radical new vision, Kitcher shows how the limited altruistic tendencies of our ancestors enabled a fragile social life, how our forebears learned to regulate their interactions with one another, and how human societies eventually grew into forms of previously unimaginable complexity. The most successful of the many millennia-old experiments in how to live, he contends, survive in our values today.

      pushes virtue ethics and natural law ethics aside for a more evolutionary view of ethics enabling societal conviviality it seems. I sense a link to Dennett's culture as evolution and speeding up evolution, and to networked agency. Perhaps also the Latour's ANT? Link w the relational ethics in AI work C did?

    2. Our human values, Kitcher shows, can be understood not as a final system but as a project-the ethical project-in which our species has engaged for most of its history, and which has been central to who we are.

      The book title [[The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher]] reflect the ongoing nature of our evolving human values. It is not a final system, but a collective project that continually defines our sociality and through it our humanity.

    3. an approach he calls "pragmatic naturalism," Kitcher reveals the power of an evolving ethics built around a few core principles

      Author calls it this ethics to make evolutionary social groupings work 'pragmatic naturalism'. I get those terms at first glance, but if the functioning of social structures is its aim, a term closer to relationships focused ethics, and evolution might be more telling, next to the clearly involved pragmatism. This term sounds closer to a fork of natural law ethics, which it doesn't seem to be, to indicate its early origins and evolutionary past. evolutionaryrelationalethics?