PJ @pj@qoto.org

In other words, the #Subject is just another #Object able to #Observe and think about other objects.

In medieval Scholasticism, the term '#subject' was used for that which stood apart, like in the way it is still present today when we say that a patient is a 'subject' of (subjected to) surgery. An '#object' was not a thing but rather correlated to a knowing being as the "intentional object" existing only in their mind's #awareness.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/374/subject-and-object-a-micro-history

#Constructivism along with 2nd order Cybernetics are trying to "right the wrong" introduced by Kant and return to the original meaning by making the #subject (observer) the #object of inquiry.

"This month alone, one such approach revealed an unexpected link between memory formation and metabolic regulation."

No way ... you are kidding me, get outta here ...

You have to be alive in order to think?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mental-phenomena-dont-map-into-the-brain-as-expected-20210824/

#Democritus (Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people") - was the first to state that everything starts with "#atoms", in a "#BottomUp #Causation.

#Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, dēmokratiā, from dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') - starts with the bottom-up association and decision of free individuals.

I see lots of posts and articles from people listing all the bad things they were able to "convince" #OpenAI's #ChatGPT to do for them as "proof" of how #AI and #ML models can be harmfully biased, so I thought will ask why is that.

The answer is, as expected, "garbage in - garbage out".

It is not the tool's fault the people using it are deliberately biased and misleading and most of them provide as "proof" only the screenshots of the answer, without bothering to also supply the questions they asked that led to such an answer.

These are my questions and the answers from #ChatGPT:

One of the better explanations of the difference between #constructivism and #constructionism :

Just finished my first conversation with #OpenAI's #ChatGPT and I must say I'm impressed.
Here is an example (the best of 3 attempts):

"We ultimately traded away the “#OhYeahButton” for the “#LikeButton”. And that was a huge mistake."

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/oh-yeah-button-tim-berners-lee.html

Found this interesting chapter from a (quite expensive) book. Not sure why the authors differentiate between #secular and #religious concepts, but nonetheless a very interesting discussion.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326423338_Humility_and_Self_Control
The "Virtuous Continuum of Responses" in Fig. 2 has two apparent aspects:
1️⃣ Commitment to following the #law or to #self_guidance
2️⃣ Commitment to #society or to a #self_interest
I find it intriguing that by looking at it this way it seems like a religious individual may become #moral but never #virtuous. A truly #virtuous individual has to be prepared to oppose the #law of the land (both secular and religious) if it endangers "long-term value creation and the duties owed to all stakeholders".

From #Scalability to #Subsidiarity in Addressing #OnlineHarm

"This article contrasts #scalability with #restorativejustice and #transformativejustice approaches to harm, which are usually context-sensitive, relational, and individualized. We argue that subsidiarity—the principle that #local #SocialUnits should have meaningful #autonomy within larger systems—might foster the balance between context and scale that is needed for improving responses to harm."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051221126041

Recently read this articl about "why we should embrace #Ontological #Humility":

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2020/05/02/ontological-humility-work/
I understand #EpistemicHumility but don't know where to put the #OntologicalHumility.

Just because we are not able to perceive the "true" #Reality, that does not mean such a thing does not exist and that we all live in our own little #AlternativeReality.

I think a much better term would be #ControlHumility for the fact that our #control capabilities do not extend beyond controlling our own internal #state.

As an illustration of the pervasive lack of control humility in our society, in a recent discussion, I've got this comment: "This controller's "internal" states just controlled you, or you would not have responded."😀

Probabilmente il miglior "concept album" di tutti i tempi:

https://youtu.be/Qug8SvnTKOo

Very interesting article:
#mastodon #fediverse #thecommons #restorativejustice
"Mastodon Isn't Just A Replacement For Twitter"
https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/

#7books of #nonfiction:

1️⃣Summa Technologiae - Stanisław Lem
2️⃣The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
3️⃣An Introduction to Cybernetics - W. Ross Ashby
4️⃣Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows
5️⃣The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Eliyahu M. Goldratt
6️⃣At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity - Stuart Kauffman
7️⃣A Question of Physics: Conversations in Physics and Biology conducted by Paul Buckley and David F. Peat

#7books of #fiction:

1️⃣ Summa Technologiae - Stanisław Lem
2️⃣The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
3️⃣The Foundation series - Isaac Asimov
4️⃣The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castañeda
5️⃣Earth's Children series - Jean M. Auel
6️⃣Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
7️⃣Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Economist James Quilligan and Charles Eisenstein discuss #GiftEconomy and #TheCommons

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/gift-economy#:~:text=A%20gift%20economy%20is%20one,%2C%20community%2C%20honor%20or%20prestige.

I was updating my Bio and realized I've never had a proper #introduction. So here it is:

Retired #systems_engineering professional and #organizational_change coach with years of experience in the #military and #aerospace domains.

WRT to #STEM, I'm primarily interested in the #Science and #Engineering of #Systems. My attitude towards #Technology is opportunistic (will use whatever works best for the occasion) and I consider #Mathematics a necessary evil to get things done properly.

My experience with #computing technology starts in the late 70's on a room-sized IBM machine and #FORTRAN programs on punch-cards, transitioned to the HPL #BASIC on an HP 9825A "fully algebraic desktop calculator" and ended abruptly with the "peeking" and "poking" on a ZX81.

Even if I was reasonably good at it, after getting my first DOS/Windows PC to play with on something called the #internet, I fell in love with things like #writing, #drawing, and #exploring new ideas, that could be done much better and faster with this new gadget, and soon decided that being a #user, doing the #design and #testing while dealing with other #people to define #product and #process #requirements is much more fun than the actual #development of the #software product itself.

I'm very glad I found this #community where we can "Question Others to Teach Ourselves". Please feel free to ask questions and argue with my views. Be sure I'll be doing the same. Nothing is sacred. There are no stupid questions, just BS answers.

Stay safe and be nice to other people.

@pj

Radio Paradise, from Eureka CA, a pioneer in the "#gifteconomy" is hiring a CTO:

"We'll pay you enough to live here comfortably. Semi-generous by local standards, low compared to SF, LA, NYC or London. “Enough” is all any of us aspire to make here. We're not capitalists. We participate – gratefully – in a gift economy. That's a huge part of why we love coming to work each day."

Check it out, forward to anyone who might be interested, or just listen the superb lineups of music on multiple different streams. It's free.😘

https://radioparadise.com/blog/cto