ICYMI (Philosophy) Daily Digest report

Identity is a hard problem in disciplines other than computer science, too.

To figure out what you can say about whether x=y or not (for the myriad different kinds of x’s and y’s) involves trying to articulate what x and y are, and at the best of times we don’t fully understand we’re talking about.

https://types.pl/@ionchy/112373223079644093

From the Harvard Business Review, "Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy"
https://hbr.org/2024/04/why-engineers-should-study-philosophy

Dear University President,
You could run out the clock... https://dailynous.com/2024/05/02/dear-university-president-you-could-run-out-the-clock/

Here's my May newsletter in my Substack. A lot of announcements, events, and even some personal stuff in there this time around. If you'd like to stay on top of the many matters I'm involved in, maybe become a subscriber!

https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/may-newsletter-for-that-philosophy
#Philosophy #News #Events #Videos

Writing #Prolog code again

That tracks

In arguing for the exclusive primacy of the studio track as the work in rock music, Theodore Gracyk points out that the Beatles stopped touring as they became fixated on sophisticated albums. I heard an interview with Michael Lindsay-Hogg today which upends the example.

When producing the promotional film for "Hey Jude", Lindsay-Hogg decided he needed more visual interest to acc…

https://www.fecundity.com/nfw/2024/05/02/that-tracks/

#LinkDump #philosophy #music

Here's the first in a series of new core concept videos on Nishitani's work The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism, produced for students in my online Existentialism class this semester.

https://youtu.be/oCuwCOQFEnE
#Video #Philosophy #Nishitani #KyotoSchool #Nihilism #Existentialism #Self

What is the power of AI as a new persuasive technology? and what can be done about it? "Hypersuasion – On AI’s persuasive power and how to deal with it", a new article freely available @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4815890

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Accanto a questo, sono stato coinvolto e travolto da @kenobit e dalla @zonawarpa, entrando nel collettivo e partecipando all'organizzazione della "colonna romana" di questo percorso fantastico e totalmente autorganizzato.
È così che, in due anni, i videogiochi e la riflessione sui giochi hanno cominciato a colorare molto di quello che faccio e che scrivo e, con essi, la mia passione per l'organizzazione collettiva che è la vera forza di queste due esperienze.

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Circa due anni fa, insieme ad alcuni amici, abbiamo deciso di prendere i videogiochi sul serio e cominciare a discuterne tra noi.
Con alcuni di essi, siamo riusciti a creare @exmachinaroma, che è uno dei pochi percorsi di studio e di lavoro collettivo della mia vita che non siano durati 45 minuti netti. Un lavoro bello e costante, del quale vado orgoglioso e che è riuscito a crescere un bel po', anche grazie al supporto e alla sopportazione dei miei compagni.

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Op verschillende plekken in Nederland werd woensdag de eerste mei gevierd. @doorbraak was er op verschillende plekken bij en maakte dit verslag van al die acties, demonstraties en lezingen. Lees hier ook mijn 1 mei-toespraak voor de demo in Nijmegen.

https://www.doorbraak.eu/zo-beleefden-wij-dit-jaar-de-dag-van-de-arbeid/

È per questo che è un piacere parlarne con Romagamedev e Andrea Ferlito, il 9 maggio dalle 18.30 ed è un momento importante perché sarà anche l'occasione per fare un primo bilancio del lavoro che stiamo svolgendo in queste due fondamentali (per me, almeno) iniziative.

Che dite, mi venite a trovare?

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biglietti-meetup-roma-game-dev-maggio-2024-895414778707

Sur l'usage du système Lavender qui attribue à chaque Palestinien un score d'appartenance au Hamas. 37000 personnes ciblées au début de l'offensive israélienne.
https://r.algorithmwatch.org/nl3/lm8uSbreEO9yUU55aO0flA

"During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. [...]
Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity"

What is digital sovereignty? Are there different models of it? Here is a new paper on: “Digital Sovereignty: A Descriptive Analysis and a Critical Evaluation of Existing Models” freely available @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4816020

L'article source : https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/