Christine Lemmer-Webber
Christine Lemmer-WebberSo uh, it appears the US constitution's official version on constitution.congress.gov has whole sections removed from it: https://slrpnk.net/post/25696399
Amongst others being the removal of the section saying "habeas corpus shall not be suspended"
Christine Lemmer-WebberCurious about the intersection of polyamory and FOSS people on here!
Christine Lemmer-WebberHear a lot about the magic of Lisp programming but never got into it? Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDROSL-gGOo
https://share.tube/w/gdtnuipKbbVdR2u1murL4t
This is based on a intro-to-Scheme/Lisp at @spritely@social.coop which starts with no background and in 30 pages takes a tour of ideas and ends with writing Scheme-in-Scheme in 30 lines of code! https://spritely.institute/static/papers/scheme-primer.html
Christine Lemmer-WebberThe safest form of computing is still abstinence
Christine Lemmer-WebberThis was an unexpected detour rant for the middle of the day. But it's something I care about. Perhaps I will collect it into a blogpost later.
I guess I will summarize, then leave the thread here...
Christine Lemmer-WebberIt's incredibly easy to be full of despair right now. I get it, I feel it too.
Don't let anyone tell you that the people who are doing the best are because they deserve it or are "geniuses".
And also don't let anyone tell you that a group of people who by and large who seem to be suffering and aren't doing as well relative to the metrics of the system is because they're not worthy or have failed themselves.
We have to try to build the best world for each other we can, the best we can.
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Christine Lemmer-WebberBut the real point is that: we should be constructing the best world we can in which people can thrive.
Measurements and metrics can be useful, if taken in aggregate, but we know full well that any metric that is used as a primary goal ends up becoming its own tyrannical destruction of the rest. (And thus, it's not surprising that money as the primary goal ends up being hyperdestructive.)
I don't want to "know who's better". I want to help people be able to be better.
Christine Lemmer-WebberThis was an unexpected detour rant for the middle of the day. But it's something I care about. Perhaps I will collect it into a blogpost later.
I guess I will summarize, then leave the thread here...
Christine Lemmer-WebberIt's not agency for the individual, it's agency for everyone. The goal is to improve the agency of all. But the purpose is still about agency, so you do care about individuals, in that the entire point is that a person is able to be and define their best selves. So there's a push-pull effect.
It's imperfect, but it's how I think about things. It's just one lens of many, but it's the main one I think about things through, in terms of ethics.
Christine Lemmer-WebberBut the real point is that: we should be constructing the best world we can in which people can thrive.
Measurements and metrics can be useful, if taken in aggregate, but we know full well that any metric that is used as a primary goal ends up becoming its own tyrannical destruction of the rest. (And thus, it's not surprising that money as the primary goal ends up being hyperdestructive.)
I don't want to "know who's better". I want to help people be able to be better.
Christine Lemmer-WebberI have said before that my primary life philosophy is an "Ethics of Agency", and I have talked about this before on a podcast episode https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/11-an-ethics-of-agency.html
I'm not interested in "happiness" as much, because I don't want a rat that leans on a lever. The "ethics of agency" thinking is a rough approach modification of utilitarianism that replaces the measurements of "happiness" and "suffering" in Utilitarianism with "agency" and "subjection".
But "subjection" is weighed more heavily.
Christine Lemmer-WebberIt's not agency for the individual, it's agency for everyone. The goal is to improve the agency of all. But the purpose is still about agency, so you do care about individuals, in that the entire point is that a person is able to be and define their best selves. So there's a push-pull effect.
It's imperfect, but it's how I think about things. It's just one lens of many, but it's the main one I think about things through, in terms of ethics.
Christine Lemmer-WebberThe world is so depressing right now. One of the only reasons I am able to get up every day and face it is that I have work with @spritely@social.coop where I think we can do something meaningful and interesting to change it, and bring hope. That and the wonderful people in my life are what keeps me going.
And it's still incredibly hard to get up in the morning.
But I believe we can do better, we can build tools and spaces for a world worth living in.
I have to believe it. I have to, to keep going.
Christine Lemmer-WebberI have said before that my primary life philosophy is an "Ethics of Agency", and I have talked about this before on a podcast episode https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/11-an-ethics-of-agency.html
I'm not interested in "happiness" as much, because I don't want a rat that leans on a lever. The "ethics of agency" thinking is a rough approach modification of utilitarianism that replaces the measurements of "happiness" and "suffering" in Utilitarianism with "agency" and "subjection".
But "subjection" is weighed more heavily.
Christine Lemmer-WebberI am not "against AI". I actually am very interested in building AI systems, but not the kinds which exist or are being pushed today.
To me, the important part of an AI system is its accountability.
We actually do hold much of our software accountable: if it does something bad, we actively change and repair it.
Corporations are rushing to flood the market with tools which don't care, have no accountability, don't have a stake in things.
That's depressing.
Christine Lemmer-WebberThe world is so depressing right now. One of the only reasons I am able to get up every day and face it is that I have work with @spritely@social.coop where I think we can do something meaningful and interesting to change it, and bring hope. That and the wonderful people in my life are what keeps me going.
And it's still incredibly hard to get up in the morning.
But I believe we can do better, we can build tools and spaces for a world worth living in.
I have to believe it. I have to, to keep going.