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Thanks to my wonderful colleagues @scuethics & @SantaClaraUniv, you can now read a version of my postman analogy on #NetNeutrality @sfchronicle sfchronicle.com/opinion/open…
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"Perhaps the most dangerous misconception is that #disinformation targets only the unsavvy or uneducated, that it works only on ‘others’... [W]e may have trouble seeing the problem when content aligns with our political identities." Or when we are in shock and pain. #ethics
Don't be an "unwitting agent" in the #misinformation warfare. Article from 2019, ever relevant: "#Disinformation's Spread: #Bots, Trolls, and All of Us": information-professionals.or… #ethics #internet #socialmedia #tech
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Three months ago I heard Salman Rushdie speak at the PEN World Voices Festival. He said: “A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb … But we are not helpless … We can sing the truth & name the liars.” We must tell better stories than the tyrants.
Like computing & philosophy? Join us on the 22nd-24th for the International Association of Computing & Philosophy's 2022 meeting at SCU (a limited number of physical spots are available through Saturday & free virtual registrations closes Wednesday)
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"Facebook declined to answer detailed questions about its filtering systems and policies on data from crisis pregnancy centers. It’s unknown whether the filters caught any... data, but our investigation showed a significant amount made its way to Facebook" revealnews.org/article/faceb…
Sometimes you want a searing critical analysis of comparative robot ethics … other times you just need a moment of silliness and whimsy.
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Thank you, @IEthics, for resurrecting (and so kindly hosting) this particular folly.
Check out tellmeaskme.com/ to get a glimpse of why I’m lucky to have colleagues like @HooriaJazaieri
Don’t look away.
Don’t look down.
Don’t pretend not to see hurt.
Look people in the eye.
Even when their pain is overwhelming.
And when you’re hurting and in pain, find people who can look you in the eye.
--@BreneBrown
“Is it ever moral to sacrifice a hostage to save a hostage-taker?” is a question I did not want to ask … again.
But with antivaxxer apologists arguing “yes,” ICUs being overwhelmed, and ethicists+policymakers repeatedly avoiding the question, here we are … again.
Is it ethical to judge intent when ICUs are overwhelmed?
It can be unethical *not* to.
Can we be both compassionate & tolerant?
Not if “tolerance” becomes complacent cruelty.
Disagree?
Read #SCUIlluminate & feel free to comment on how I’m wrong.
scu.edu/illuminate/thought-l…
May your best day in 2021 be its shortest.
And may I be proven wrong about that with every day to come.
(Translation: Wishing everyone happy holidays in a tough year, but happier days to come)
Students once told me how an elderly professor repeated a lecture.
None of them spoke up.
They loved & didn’t want to embarrass him.
The professor told me how his “inattentive” students didn’t notice a repeated lecture.
Students — hard to test, easy to underestimate.
I thought crows were smart, but now I have doubts. The seeds of those doubts were sown when I observed some local murders obsessively checking the county health websites. It appears they were worried about “corvid restrictions.”
First it was harmless US flirting with elves on shelves, then Canada had to go and develop an outdoor variant of this devious surveillance tech.
But it turns out that Sauron had an airborne variant of his own (built atop a Prime Air predecessor in delivery tech).
I am speechless in awe and delight.
Read the lost thesis of Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language & co-creator of Unix: bit.ly/RitchiePhD
Ritchie never got his PhD b/c he didn't want to pay Harvard the thesis binding fee.
(v/@IEEESpectrum)
42 years ago today, the book version was published.
Shouldn’t there be endless media coverage of two philosopher factions passionately, pointlessly, and profitably debating the significance?
(& if you know anyone who hasn’t heard/read H2G2 … do remember to share & enjoy)
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The 3rd Annual Second Chances #Hackathon at @santaclaralaw is coming up on 10/23: Register now! law.scu.edu/event/3rd-annual… #ethics #law #criminaljustice #tech #highered cc @colleen_chien @aamer @jtashea
Is it ethical to judge intent when ICUs are overwhelmed?
It can be unethical *not* to.
Can we be both compassionate & tolerant?
Not if “tolerance” becomes complacent cruelty.
Disagree?
Read #SCUIlluminate & feel free to comment on how I’m wrong.
scu.edu/illuminate/thought-l…
I still can't quite believe how ethicists backed away from this question (including pundits who dismissed the entire issue with the bad "mass traffic accident" analogy) when it was still just hypothetical.
It stopped being hypothetical weeks ago.
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