AI when it is about help for something you could do , but with higher effort, extending the capabilities and gaining time. This is core def of a tool to me. It reads as an increase in reach, not in agency as such (that pre-exists, Jeremy already knows what he wants and what good looks like in a result)

https://www.bargainjohn.com/product/antique-pacific-express-railway-company-oak-filing-cabinet/

archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260715165458/https://www.bargainjohn.com/product/antique-pacific-express-railway-company-oak-filing-cabinet/

via u/Charliev1630 at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ubgozb/acquired_early_1900s_wooden_woodstock_standard/

https://www.si.edu/object/archives/sova-nmah-ac-0260<br /> Railway Express Agency Records<br /> American History Museum

Can't help but read this and think about retirees, children, homemakers, etc... how do things like "volunteering" or "chores" relate to "work" in this sense?

大多数人认为互联网设备是工具，应该按照用户意图工作，但作者认为现代互联网设备实际上是代理，代表多方利益，这些利益可能与用户不一致。这挑战了我们对数字工具本质的理解，暗示我们使用的每台设备都在进行某种形式的'集体谈判'。

令人惊讶的是：作者暗示GLM-5.1的失败可能源于缺乏视觉能力和智能代理循环，这揭示了当前AI发展的关键瓶颈——多模态整合和自主决策能力可能是未来AI突破的关键所在。

exactly. like I was told by someone in Central Asia, I'll get to your western environmental concerns after I can reliably feed my family. Not a fully correct distinction, but fully understandable when seen from a perspective of agency povert. n:: externalities concerns v-a-v agency poverty

Another strong observation. Knowing the wider externalities and individual agency do not always overlap. The individual aspects cannot be asked to bear the systemic ones. You can work to change the system and still use the individual benefits while doing so.

this is the only test I think most people apply. Esp when it comes to individuals, outside deployment in teams or in orgs.

true in essence, but in practice it is what I see people experiencing, despite forking 20USD/month over to BigTech

rhetoric: concluding statement. this positions the LLM as an 'enhancement' to physical human limitation, rather than a replacement of the human subject.

inference: This helps to validate the 'Augmented Human Wisdom' model. The future of AI is NOT replacing humans, but AI acting as a high-powered syntax engine that is strictly guided by human needs and human intent. The AI does not have 'agency', as it is a software tool that helps the human to execute their visions.

[[Sovereign Minds by Nadia Alter]] looks very worthwhile to get. mentions agency in the subtitle.

(via [[Alberto Cottica p]] on masto)

[[Spammy handelings asymmetrie 20201220072726]] has a name when it is about misinfo: Brandolini's Law (coined 2013)

Jorge Arango on the book [[Superagency by Reid Hoffman Greg Beato]], wrt how to look at AI.

bigtech and autocracy as similar forces eroding agency

n::: what requirements can you list for programming that increases agency, not automating / replacing it and abstracting it away.

programming as antidote to AI/programming

this.

n: ai arc of programming evo is a 'detour' where it replaces human agency. where programming itself is historically based on increasing agency At first glance this is a big tech vs bottom up dev thing too. I can see where AI can increase agency locally individually too. Just not through the AI offerings of bigtech

Like myself Alper is his own most frequent reader of his blog. Mentions realising how much he did in a week earlier in his life. Same for me, things that now might be a big thing in a week, were Tuesday afternoon 15yrs ago. It's not just age I suspect, but also an overall attenuation that Covid brought?

Three insights / results from doing it a month 1) small patterns emerge, after 2 weeks. Repeated observations bring them to the fore, and no longer done a way with as incident. The weekly review was key in this. 2) more aware of positive moments (a pattern in itself imo), again weekly review key Vgl #microsucces 3) reflection changed his practice. Small feedback loop was doing something slightly diff the next session, based on the action formulated the previous one. The review served to see the impact of micro-interventions. The reflection provided agency as professional.

n:: Naming things as source of agency. Vgl [[Nnedi Okorafor on subgenre]] / [[Creating your space act of agency 20230926114408]]

for - definition - the teological sin - biological systems aren't suppose to have agency!

for - humanities - planetary boundaries - human agency - over or underestimated? problematic?

Quote David Lynch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_the_Big_Fish continued.

Mentions examples of set-ups for different activities. Vgl spaces on laptop. Vgl my home office vs attic space etc.

Vgl [[%index coachingboekje]] wrt set-ups I need/want/woud like to have or list of set-ups currently available to me.

Quote David Lynch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_the_Big_Fish continued.

Not having a set-up ready when an idea hits means no agency. Mentions festering a type of powerlessness, vgl [[%I Networked Agency]] wrt methods and tools for various things. Also vgl making note of any idea in 3Ideeenkweekkas

David Lynch quoted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_the_Big_Fish about the necessity of a set-up to have agency and act on an idea.

[[Peter Rukavina]] on great set-ups. Take this as a thinking aid vgl [[%index coachingboekje]] wrt needed / ideal settings for types of activity.

吸血鬼般的口譯經紀公司收費，不能只有我看到：

經紀公司實收口譯費可能高得驚人。除非你意外得知這個數字，否則會糊塗以為他們從你身上抽25%佣金已經算很多了。

幾年前我自己也意外得知，一場法律口譯，經紀公司給我每小時 X，實際則向律師客戶收 2.5X。

這裡，這位西班牙語法律口譯所得時薪 Y，我猜不可能超過150（美元），甚至可能是 120，所以那個倍數不只是 250%，很可能是 400%-500%。

This quote is aimed at negative interaction wrt open source coding projects, but it fits resentment fueled populism too. Vgl [[Agency tekorten 20160818092829]] and [[Agency armoede digital poverty 20150819204958]]

Publications by Fleur Jongepier (author of [[Berghonger by Fleur Jongepier]] )

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Evolution doesn't engineer solutions; it produces problem solving agents.

The Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters by [[Robert W. Lucky]]

for - adjacency - civics - local agency

adjacency - between - civics and - local agency - adjacency relationship - Exactly what is the threshold of participation and governance by local community members? - There is an entire spectrum of participation - In a representative democracy, participation is usually quite low

Nach den Erfahrungen mit den Angriffen der ersten Trump-Administration auf die Wissenschaft haben Wissenschaftler:innen in den USA verschiedene Maßnahmen zum Schutz wissenschaftlicher Institutionen ergriffen. Die New York TImes berichtet ausführlich über diese scientific integrity policies, die wissenschaftliche Arbeit öffentlich beobachtbar machen, aber politische Einflussnahme ausschließen sollen. Die Biden- und schon die Obama-Administration haben scientific integrity policies gefördert. Zu den Maßnahmen gehören die Benennung von Verantwortlichen für wissenschaftliche Integrität in Behörden und Kollektivverträge, die die Disziplinierung von Forschenden erschweren.

Zum „War on Science“ schon der ersten Trump-Regierung gehörte außer Entlassungen von Wissenschaftler:innen auch die Anordnung der Verfälschung von Forschungsergebnissen. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/climate/trump-government-scientists.html

for - definition - system reflexivity (Moore et al., 2018) - the capacity to see the complexity and mobilize the agency in a system, while deeply engaging with diversity across multiple scales - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

for - quote - to make significant, to reflect upon, to celebrate and enact Religio is to fundamentally enhance our agency, the disclosure of the world and our connectedness to it. And what else could be more valuable to us? What else could be more valuable to us? - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

quote - to make significant, to reflect upon, to celebrate and enact Religio is to fundamentally enhance our agency, the disclosure of the world and our connectedness to it. And what else could be more valuable to us? What else could be more valuable to us? - John Vervaeke - (see below) - And we do this, I would argue, - for the very good reason that - to make significant, - to reflect upon, - to celebrate and enact Religio - is to fundamentally - enhance our agency, - the disclosure of the world and our connectedness to it. - And what else could be more valuable to us? What else could be more valuable to us?

Ein neuer Bericht der europäischen Kommission sagt aus, dass die EU dreimal so schnell dekarbonisieren muss wie bisher, um das Ziel zu erreichen, die Emissionen bis 2030 um 55% zu reduzieren. Den Zahlen der European Environment Agency zufolge reicht der gegenwärtige Kurs nur für eine Reduzierung um 43%. Ein Haupthindernis sind die enorm hohen fossilen Subventionen. Die Selbstverpflichtungen von EU-Staaten vor der COP28 treffen z.T. verspätet ein, und die vorliegenden sind einem Bericht des Climate Action Network zufolge sehr unzureichend. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/24/eu-must-cut-emissions-three-times-more-quickly-report-says

State of the Energy Union: https://energy.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2023-10/COM_2023_650_1_EN_ACT_part1_v10.pdf CAN-Bericht: https://caneurope.org/content/uploads/2023/10/NECPs_Assessment-Report_October2023.pdf

A new approach to micro-mobilzation - "In your circles, co-dismantle the learned helplessness around big things."

Www.theweek.ooo (climate change example)

for - regenerative company - principle 1 of 8 - agency-based instead of ownership-based - implementation - via leveraging full extent of legal personhood

Comment - Graham points out an interesting insight, that organisations are given legal personhood status -namely, we test a group of people as a person itself - This reminds me of Michael Levin's Multi Scale Competency Architecture

How Soviets used IBM Selectric keyloggers to spy on US diplomats by [[Dan Goodin]]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/warn-valencia-government-flooding

Allein das Rollback der klimapolitischen Maßnahmen der Biden-Administration durch die Trump-Regierung wird bis 2030 zu 4 Gigatonnen CO2-Äqivalenten an zusätzlicher Emissionen führen (bis 2050 zu 27GtCO2e). Die Analyse verschiedener Modellierungen der von Trump geplanten Maßnahmen durch Carbon Brief ergab im März, dass die USA damit weltweit fast eine Billiarde USD zusätzlicher „social costs of carbon“ verursachen würden. Die geplante weitere fossile Expansion unter dem Motto „drill, Baby, drill!“ ist dabei nicht einberechnet https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump-election-win-could-add-4bn-tonnes-to-us-emissions-by-2030

Die New York Times über die Pläne des Trump-Teams zur Beendigung der Klimapolitik der Biden-Administration. Dazu gehören der Austritt aus dem Pariser Abkommen, die Verlagerung (zwecks Entmachtung) der Environmental Protection Agency und die Aufhebung des Verbots von Bohrungen in bisherIgen Naturschutzgebieten und Territorien von Native Americans. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/climate/trump-transition-epa-interior-energy.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/31/eu-emissions-fall-by-8-in-steep-reduction-reminiscent-of-covid-shutdown

Bericht: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/trends-and-projections-in-europe-2024

Der neue Bericht der Europäischen Umweltbehörde zum Wasser stellt fest, dass sich nur 37% der Oberflächengewässer in einem guten oder sehr guten Zustand befinden. Vor allem die Landwirtschft belastet die Gewässer durch Pestizide und Dünger. Die globale Erhitzung führt außer zu mehr Überschwemmungen zu zunehmendem Wasserstress durch Dürren. Die Qualität der Gewässer verschlechtere sich. Europa sei auf dem Weg, seine Ziele beim Schutz der Wasserversorgung zu vefehlen https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000240721/europas-wasserversorgung-laut-eu-agentur-vor-gro223en-herausforderungen

Bericht: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/state-of-water

Indeed. [[AI personal assistants 20201011124147]] https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/10/narrow-band-digital-personal-assistants/ We should start with the personal here, wrt automation, not the AI to get to quicker results: [[small band AI personal assistant]] where the personal limits the range of possible inputs for a task and the range of acceptable outputs for a task, leaving a smaller area for an AI agent to do its thing in and thus be more effective.

Still, how much of that is already available to automate on-device? 'routine tasks automated' is not in need of AI. What are examples?

Agents are prompt chains that include fetching info (params!) from elsewhere for their function. vlg [[Standard operating procedures met parameters 20200820202042]] I wonder how you generalise them, other than 'go buy/book', and when you do if they are above what on-device automation can do. In the end individuals need to be able to set the params/boundaries of any agent, make it their own agent, rather than some corps agent. What I see at consumer facing level is not aiding consumers but aiding corps reduce human interaction with consumers. Agents should increase agency, is the lithmus test.

Vgl [[Sturgeons Law most is crap 20190328205135]] https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/03/90-of-everything-is-crap-a-source-of-imposter-syndrome/ Provides agency and ratchet too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_forest_inequity

urban forest inequity

Mentions of humans thinning trees for better tree canopy in the section on black ash trees in Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Die Methan-Emissionen steigen in den USA wie international weiter, im Widerspruch zu den Zusagen des Global Methane Pledge. Eine Hauptursache ist die weiter zunehmende Förderung von Öl und Gas. Neue Auswertungen des Instituts Kayrros ergeben detaillierter als bisher Cass die Emissionen in13 grossen Öl- und Gas-Fördergebieten mit zwei Ausnahmen gewachsen sind. Hintergrundbericht, auch über Maßnahmen der Biden-Administration und EU- zur Reduktion der Emissionen. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/climate/us-methane-greenhouse-gas.html

Kayrros-Artikel: https://www.energyintel.com/00000187-9953-d12b-a7bf-9dfb5fb60000

Is it really?

Yes, this I can see, but that's not making AI into K, but embracing complexity and being able to adapt fluidly in the face of it. To increase agency, my working def of K. This is what sensemaking is for, not AI as such.

for - question - does the world have agency? <br /> - answer - don't know - but it's not philosophical - it's scientific - do experiments to determine answer - Michael Levin

for - question - does the World have agency? - Michael Levin

for - critique - of Watson & Cricks DNA - agency of organisms

critique - of Watson & Cricks DNA - agency of organisms - Watson & Cricks advocated the now disproven idea that causality is only one direction - from genes to - proteins to - functionality of living organisms - when in fact, it goes the other way, giving the high level living organism agency

for - quote - human agency - Ray Noble

quote - (see below)

• It had to give us something which all the other organisms didn't have which was
  • a cell that was different
  • a mind that was different
• that gave us agency
  • but denied it to other organisms
  • and that unfortunately I think persisted

teaching self regulation

Teaching students responsibility is an issue in both face-to-face and online learning. Just because you are sitting in a classroom doesn't mean you are engaged.

Die steigende europäische Nachfrage nach Erdgas wird einer Studie von Global witness zufolge bis 2033 Investitionen von 223 Milliarden Dollar hervorrufen. Die von Europa ausgelösten Gesamtinvestitionen in Erdgas werden bis dahin eine Billion Dollar ausmachen. https://ecopolitic.com.ua/en/news/popit-na-gaz-v-ies-sprichinit-novi-investicii-u-vikopne-palivo-na-223-milyardiv-doslidzhennya-2/

Pasal ini mengerdilkan fungsi KPI hanya sebatas mengatur dan mengawasi isi dan konten siaran. Sementara problem penyiaran di Indonesia cukup kompleks dan sarat kepentingan. Sudah banyak kajian yang membahas 'mandul'nya KPI sebagai Independent Regulatory Agency. Lihat

Vgl [[Netwerkleren Connectivism 20100421081941]] / [[Context is netwerk van betekenis 20210418104314]] [[Observator geeft betekenis 20210417124703]] . I think K as stock is prone to collector's fallacy. My working def of K is agency along lines of Sveiby. Such K is always situated in the interaction with the world, networks of meaning as context. This as K isn't merely purified I (DIKW pyramid is bogus), it's weaving I, experience, context, skills into a meaningful whole, and it needs an agent to decide on what's meaningful.

Die Europäische Umweltagentur hat ihren ersten Klimarisiko-Bericht veröffentlicht. Von 36 Risiken erfordern 21 sofortiges Handeln, acht mit besonderer Dringlichkeit. Insgesamt sei Europa bei weitem nicht ausreichend auf die Risiken der globalen Erhitzung vorbereitet, die in Südeuropa am bedrohlichsten seien. Europa ist der von der Erhitzung am stärksten betroffene Kontinent. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000211032/eu-muss-sich-auf-katastrophale-folgen-des-klimawandels-vorbereiten

Bericht: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/european-climate-risk-assessment

Die Europäische Kommission plant, die Treibhausgas-Emissionen bis 2040 um 90% im Vergleich zu 1990 zu reduzieren. Dabei soll CCS eine große Rolle spielen. Der Plan ist eine Empfehlung für die nächste Kommission. Aufgrund der Proteste von Landwirt:innen wurden einige der vorgesehenen Regelungen, etwa zu Methan und Lachgas, in letzter Minute zurückgenommen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/06/eu-lays-out-plan-to-cut-greenhouse-emissions-by-90-by-2040

Mehr dazu: https://hypothes.is/search?q=tag%3A%22EU%20emission%20goals%202040%22

Ghana ist weltweit das Land mit der schnellsten Entwaldungsrate. Die meisten Abholzungen sind illegal und widersprechen der neuen EU-Verordnung zu entwaldungsfreien Lieferketten. Die Bestimmungen werden in großen Stil umgegangen, dabei spielt Korruption eine große Rolle, aber auch mangelnde Kontrolle bei den Importeuren. Reportage der taz. https://taz.de/Abholzung-in-Ghana/!5985427/

https://web.archive.org/web/20240123105000/https://wiredvanity.substack.com/p/denial-of-future-attack-updated

Igor mentions he coined 'Denial of Future Attack' in 2016, intentionally swamping people w info, so their ability to choose / decide is eroded.

Räumlichkeit, Handlungsmacht der Teile und Instabilität der Erde oder Gaias gehören zusammen.

Das norwegische Parlament hat den Weg zum Tiefseebergbau frei gemacht. Es geht vor allem um die Förderung von Mineralien für erneuerbare Energien. Die Entscheidung fiel gegen den Rat sehr vieler Fachleute und trotz eines internationalen Moratoriums. Tiefseebergbau ist mit extremen Risiken für die Biodiversität verbunden. Ausführliches Interview mit der Aktivistin Camille Etienne. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/biodiversite/camille-etienne-si-la-norvege-vote-lexploitation-des-fonds-marins-elle-va-creer-une-nouvelle-industrie-mortifere-pour-le-climat-20240109_FHGG6UF745EPTK3AFNING4TUH4/

• for: book - Commanding Hope - description

• book: Commanding Hope

  • This is a book about agency, activism and personal engagement
  • It takes a philosophical understanding of hope and applies it to the polycrisis we face

Erneuerbare Energien sind in den vergangenen 20 Jahren deutlich schneller gewachsen als prognostiziert. Das Wachstum war aber nicht so groß wie das des Stromverbrauchs insgesamt, so dass die Emissionen aus fossilen Energien trotzdem zugenommen haben. Die New York Times stellt die Entwicklung des Elektrizitäts-Sektors nach Länder geordnet mit Infografiken dar und analysiert sie. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/20/climate/global-power-electricity-fossil-fuels-coal.html

'uncertainty coping strategies' equal living your life I suppose, in the face of the 'strains of everyday reality' since the groups in caves. What is different here wrt Igor and Johannes' work experience and patterns. Just Urbanism (then how is this diff from 18th century?) The complexity of those strains? The inability to withdraw from strains created by others through industrial work practices / social media algo inducement? The sense of looming doom wrt ecocollapse, financial crash etc, systemic threats iw and no agency to individually address some of that? Or is it merely the high end market catering to it, exploiting the stress rather than solving the stressors? What is Igo saying here?

23:00 intrinsic motivation gives agency, makes you less vulnerable to outside forces (which impose extrinsic motivation)

24:00 “detached like a monk, engaged like a warrior”

"I had to stand up and create the sub-category for my work because others could not get it right. Creating a space is better than trying to fit into a space that was never made for you. I don't do erasure. #Africanfuturism #Africanjujuism " says author Nnedi Okorafor. Here 5 authors who coined their own subgenres https://bookriot.com/authors-who-coined-their-own-sub-genres/ e.g. hopepunk, silkpunk, barrio noir, quozy mystery and Okorafor's two.

Creating a space has harmonics with [[It’s More Logical to Host an Event Than Attend One – Interdependent Thoughts 20210309093335]] and esp Rorty's [[Is het nieuwe uit te leggen in taal van het oude 20031104104340]], labeling your own thing / making a space / creating new language as an act of agency

10:00 hero’s journey as non-deterministic, growing possibility of horizons for individuals

seeing day as potential horizons, facing the dragons of the day

see in Hobbit, Harry Potter, Star Wars

07:00 circumstances making a person hard; not getting picked up by his mom, but standing up himself

This immersion factor is why story is such a crucial part of games - they cannot allow for complete agency, or else these moments of thrilling or terrifying emotion would not naturally emerge

Murray writes about call and response as a a kind of participatory engagement but with limited engagement because it's a form with expected patterns. I think this kind of repetition in traditional forms speaks to a kind of social agency if not to individual agency

This is an interesting connection that I had not thought of when I consume literature. In traditional literature, I don't find myself wanting to problem solve but I can understand incorporating problem solving into digital literature is a very engaging way to maintain other people's attention and further emphasize a message.

Maze based games give a sense an agency as they are often moved forward directly by the player's actions. There's a sense of progress that can be called winning even if the game is not structured as a binary win or loss.

It ties back to their original definition of agency and how it shows up in entertainment.

Great definition of "agency." I think though that it leaves it up to us to determine what meaningful action is and what constitutes satisfying results.

(~10:00) "The context determines the meaning of the content."

Thus reframing is very powerful as you recontextualize the past, and therefore see it in a whole new light; the meaning of the past changed.

By asking what you have learned from the past, you become anti-fragile and flexible, as you turn the past into something useful; an asset.

"The past happens for us, not to us."

"How you frame the past influences your expectations for the future."

"You can't disconnect your view of the future from your experience in the present."

"You can't have meaning in the present without hope & purpose in the future."

One of the powerful things about journaling is that you can control the past; reframe it. What is the meaning of the past gets determined by both the present and the future.

Hardy recommends to often (even daily) reflect on the past and notice how different you are now compared to then. What you have achieved, what is possible now that was not possible then, etc.

What did I learn today?

(~4:00) We interpret reality in a (cognitive) schema. Reality exists only in the mind. We cannot view reality objectively because it is intertwined with perception and cognition (see also John Boyd's OODA loop).

Sidenote; because of this, time is also holistic; in our schema, the past, present, and future are basically all-existent at once.

Watch this video for much interesting information about journaling.

Journaling is all about agency

03:54 Attention as most valuable resource (which media can take away)

37:30 Tech companies don't want you to take info into your own notes (see pkm can give agency)

Overview of how tech changes work moral changes. Seems to me a detailing of [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]] diving into a specific part of it, where cultural categories are adapted to fit new tech in. #openvraag are the sources containing refs to either Monster theory by Smits or the anthropoligical work of Mary Douglas. Checked: it doesn't, but does cite refs by PP Verbeek and Marianne Boenink, so no wonder there's a parallel here.

The first example mentioned points in this direction too: the 70s redefinition of death as brain death, where it used to be heart stopped (now heart failure is a cause of death), was a redefinition of cultural concepts to assimilate tech change. Third example is a direct parallel to my [[Empathie verschuift door Infrastructuur 20080627201224]] [[Hyperconnected individuen en empathie 20100420223511]]

Where Monstertheory is a tool to understand and diagnose discussions of new tech, wherein the assmilation part (both cultural cats and tech get adapted) is the pragmatic route (where the mediation theory of PP Verbeek is located), it doesn't as such provide ways to act / intervene. Does this taxonomy provide agency?

Or is this another way to locate where moral effects might take place, but still the various types of responses to Monsters still may determine the moral effect?

Zotero antilib Mechanisms of Techno-moral Change

Via Stephen Downes https://www.downes.ca/post/75320

Learning as a Network LaaN and Personal Knowledge Network PKN , do these labels give me anything new?

Mohamed Amine Chatti: The LaaN Theory. In: Personalization in Technology Enhanced Learning: A Social Software Perspective. Aachen, Germany: Shaker Verlag, 2010, pp. 19-42. http://mohamedaminechatti.blogspot.de/2013/01/the-laan-theory.html I've followed Chatti's blog in the past I think. Prof. Dr. Mohamed Amine Chatti is professor of computer science and head of the Social Computing Group in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. (did his PhD at RWTH in 2010, which is presumably how I came across him, through Ralf Klamma)

Dave Troy is a US investigative journalist, looking at the US infosphere. Places resistance against disinformation not as a matter of factchecking and technology but one of reshaping social capital and cultural network topologies.

Early work by Valdis Krebs comes to mind vgl [[Netwerkviz en people nav 20091112072001]] and how the Finnish 'method' seemed to be a mix of [[Crap detection is civic duty 2018010073052]] and social capital aspects. Also re taking an algogen text as is / stand alone artefact vs seeing its provenance and entanglement with real world events, people and things.

Avoiding bad decisions isn't the same as making a constructive decision though. This here is more akin to postponed gratification.

Note that these are examples that imply that using regret of future self in decision making is mostly for deciding against a certain action (eat cake, buy new toy).

As part of decision making involve a 'future self' so that different perspective(s) can get taken into account in a personal decision on an action.

Vgl Vinay Gupta's [[Verantwoording aan de kinderen 20200616102016]] as a way of including future selves, by tying consequence evalution to the human rights of children.

Compounding plays a role in any current decision. Vgl [[Compound interest van implementatie en adoptie 20210216134309]] [[Compound interest of habits 20200916065059]]

Temporal discounting: future consequences are taken into account as an inverse of time. It's based on urgency as a survival trait.

Agent-regret seems a useful term to explore. Also in less morally extreme settings than the accidental killing in this piece.

collaborative is different from shifting the locus of agency to the human, it implies shared agency. Also human in the loop I usually see used not for agency but for control (final decision is a human) and hence liability. (Which is often problematic because the human is biased to accept conclusions presented to them. ) Meant as safeguard only, not changing the role of the model agent, or intended to shift agency.

Use LLM in tools that 1. protect human agency 2. treat models as reasoning engines, not source of truth / oracles 3. augment cog abilities, no greedy reductionism to replace them

I would not just protect human agency, which turns our human efforts into a preserve, LLM tools need to increase human agency (individually and societally) 3 yes, we must keep Engelbarting! lack of 2 is the source of the hype balloon we need to pop. It starts with avoiding anthromorphizing through our idiom around these tools. It will be hard. People want their magic wand, not the colder realism of 2 (you need to keep sorting out your own messes, but with a better shovel)

This has implications for instructional designers and is one of the main reasons why a teacher of record should participate in the design of a course to the fullest extent possible. It isn't just about "buy in". It's about authenticity, authority, and teacher agency.

Die Po-Ebene gehört zu zu den Regionen mit der schlechtesten Luft in Europa. Hauptursache sind fossile Brennstoffe. https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/04/28/news/smog_allarme_ue_bambini_pianura_padana_inquinamento-397995224/

Bericht von Bloomberg Green über grüne Investitionen von Venture-Kapitalisten. Im Vordergrund stehen - oft mit öffentlicher Beteiligung - nicht mehr die schon eingeführten Technologien zur Energieerzeugung sondern Elektrifizierung neuer Bereiche und auch das Speichern von CO2. 2022 würden ca. 70 Milliarden USD venture Capital und insgesamt 652 Milliarden in Climate Tech investiert. Der International Renewable Energy Agency zufolge müssen sich die Investitionen jährlich vervierfachen. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-climate-tech-startups-where-to-invest/?srnd=green&leadSource=uverify%20wall

not just trained with, also trained by. is it fully transparent though? Perhaps from the trainers/tools standpoint, but users are likely to fall for the tool abstracting its origins away, ELIZA style, and project agency and thus morality on it.

Initial thoughts — review later I mean, if I had to pull in some Bandura, it's bi-drectional determinism? Right? So it's influencing behaviour as an environmental factor that could also be done by thinking?

If I think about Csikszentmihalyi in Good Business on culture as a game, perhaps rules are to games what protocols are to culture? If culture is a set of norms that keep you from anomie / entropy and make spaces for alienation, then the agency of the individual may be developed over time (control over consciousness) that may allow for greater expression over agency to follow or not follow protocols. In this sense, protocols would be the default, and intentionally not following protocols (probabilistically not by chance) might require agency? That is if we are following the definition that good protocols have the Schelling point or become default and are almost invisible untill they break.

Bureaucracy may be an example of a deeply frustrating protocol?

CAA Raises Eight to Agent by Mia Galuppo

Kate Arenson, Jessica Brown, Sydney Chance, Emmett Gordon, Ron Jordan, Sydney Lipsitz, Peter Morton and Andi Wong have been upped.

read on Fri 2022-12-09 7:10 AM

APA Leaders Talk Growth and Dealing With DOJ on CAA-ICM Acquisition by Cynthia Littleton

read on Thu 2022-12-08 6:55 AM

who's the we here? Just the few (rich countries) or also the many. Then lists aspects systems / ethics and what method of change you think to deploy.

The Ponzi scheme that is western society is centered as cause and its end the remedy. Vgl [[De externe input cheat 20091015070231]] where I formulate the same. We've run out of being able to ignore [[Geexternaliseerde effecten 20200914204533]]. Is this a [[Ethics of Agency 20201003161155]]?

Dave positions free will as a 1 or 0 thing, and then tends to 0. Is it that binary though? A spectrum (matters of degree across different contexts) would also help explain things.

Free will is not free of consequences, which is where conditioning kicks in. (and society demanding responsibility or not)

How about animals? Conditioned by their ecosystem (like us, by ecosystem and culture), yet free to roam which coalesces into patterns (migration, foraging, trails)

Is emergence then disproving free will? Emergence is the only possible definition of 'they' here. Which lacks intention and planning. Still means you can perceive it as forcing you / hostility compared to you individually.

Evolution. Your starting point on the evolutionary field of possibilities is determined outside of you, and limits choices/paths, as does every choice made along the way cut off certain paths and brings others in reach. One has limited control there by def, and no control for the first phase of life (what little control as child is there is while ignorant of consequences down the line wrt options).

This juxtaposes invidivual (having free will or not), and society (imposing full conditioning). Crux of complexity is group level, groups one is part of by conditioning/birth and by choice/seeking out within available pre-conditioned options. There is no influence free place, but doubt it's a prerequisite for free will. Is agency more useful term, as it does apply to groups, and by extension organisations and countries. Bit weird their mention in context of free will as if anthromorphisation is something actual.

This comes back to my 'tech smaller than us', governance and technological control over a tool should reside within the context-specific group of users using it. Which does not mean every single person within the group needs all the skills to control the tool, just that the group has it within itself, and decides on how that control is used a group. Vgl [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]] and [[Technologie kleiner dan ons 20160818122905]] n:: This would e.g. imply in Tarkowski's text that a community run instance would ensure having at least 1 member contribute code to Mastodon, and strategically operate to ensure that. Is this also an element wrt the above about Paradox of Open, as the non-monetary benefits of contributing may be well be enumerated as part of the operating costs of a community instance?

https://www.lydiawills.com/agency.html