Lies and honest mistakes ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Content Advisories https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/04/advisory.html #harm #ethics #safety
Robot Ethics with Dr. Kate Darling — Cosmic Queries ⌘ Read more…
The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.
At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: (Finally) Cutting the Cord https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/04/cord-cut.html #media #television #nonfree #ethics
The wise man bowed his head and said solemnly: “There is in fact no difference between aesthetics and ethics (normativity and morality). You imbecile. You fucking moron.”
Umeshism: If you can follow your own ethical rules, your own ethical rules are not demanding enough.
[Questions About] versus [Moral Arguments From] Coherent Ethical Simplicity
On the blog: Wanted — Ethical Media Consumption https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/02/ethmedia.html #media #license #ethics #rant
Are the people who think ‘problematic’ means ‘cancelled’ the same ones who think ‘there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism’ means ‘never buy anything’? Glad I don’t know any of them.
“Ethics” and Ethics - iA https://ia.net/topics/ethics-and-ethics
The American Worth Ethic https://longreads.com/2019/04/08/the-american-worth-ethic/
The problem with AI ethics - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18293410/ai-artificial-intelligence-ethics-boards-charters-problem-big-tech
Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/50-shades-of-greyhat-a-study-in-how-not-to-handle-security-disclosures/
a version of vegetarianism where it’s ethical to eat animals that you’ve uploaded
The difficult part of sentient-AI ethics is not whether to grant the AIs human rights, but what to do with humans who are clearly dumber than the AIs
Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues
Laura Kalbag “ Ethical design is not superficial https://laurakalbag.com/ethical-design-is-not-superficial/
The Ethics of Web Performance - TimKadlec.com https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-09-the-ethics-of-performance/
Open source DIY ethics https://arp242.net/weblog/diy.html
The Internet Doesn’t Need Civility, It Needs Ethics - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5gxn/the-internet-doesnt-need-civility-it-needs-ethics
Do you know your stuff? The ethics of the material world | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/do-you-know-your-stuff-the-ethics-of-the-material-world
How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext
Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethics-in-computer-science-with-up-to-3-5-million-in-prizes/
“Striving to minimize technical and reputational risks” – Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s guilty … https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/striving-to-minimize-technical-and-reputational-risks-ethical-os-and-silicon-valleys-guilty-conscience/
forget ethical considerations, the real reason you should leave primitive civilizations alone is that they provide critical input to the drake equation and allow you to estimate the likelyhood of an attack by a more advanced civilization
‘Ethics are beyond my purview’ is a fancy way of saying ‘it is unsafe to allow me to make decisions’
eBay, Organized Crime, and Evangelical Christians: The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civ… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgxjp/ebay-organized-crime-and-evangelical-christians-the-ethical-minefield-of-studying-ancient-civilizations-hobby-lobby-irisagrig-iraq
Bad idea of the day: a letter-writing campaign to members of CS program accreditation boards (at their home addresses) requesting algorithmic bias & data ownership be a part of mandatory ethics classes in the curriculum.
Using Ethics In Web Design â Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/
Why Big Tech Needs Big Ethics — Right Now! – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/03/24/why-big-tech-needs-big-ethics-right-now
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - All… http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
Tech Ethics Curriculum - Google Sheets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jWIrA8jHz5fYAW4h9CkUD8gKS5V98PDJDymRf8d9vKI/edit?imm_mid=0f852c
Welcome To The Secret World of Internet Bots | Bitch Media https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/the-ethics-of-internet-bots
The Complex Ethics of a Haunted House Starring Psychiatric Patients - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/utah-state-haunted-castle-psychiatric-hospital
📚 Finished reading Experiments in Ethics (The Mary Flexner Lectures) by Kwame Anthony Appiah
📚 Finished reading Experiments in Ethics (The Mary Flexner Lectures) by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Mel Brooks, The Producers and the Ethics of Satire about N@zis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cPPSyoQkE
“you do not pascal-mug your predecessors” as ethical principle preventing basilisks because your successors may do the same to you