[[Jeremy Cherfas p]] on GMO food, gm by selection, and pesticide resistance.

middle way then, less third way. then which cultural categories are we learning to adapt here. Deconstructing human skills and pulling out parts that lend themselves to automation? As before. Or will we adapt AI tools, by who gets to control them, build them, host them etc. If they weren't silo'd but were democratised, it would be differen.t

the correct term, and [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]] the way to look at it.

This is akin to [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]] spectrum (kiil the monster, adapt the monster, adapt cultural categories, embrace the monster) It is sort of logical that most of us will fall in the middle 2 groups, adapting both the tech and ourselves.

Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview John Danaher & Henrik Skaug Sætra 2023

The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how, exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging field of inquiry by developing a synoptic taxonomy of the mechanisms of techno-moral change. It argues that technology affects moral beliefs and practices in three main domains: decisional (how we make morally loaded decisions), relational (how we relate to others) and perceptual (how we perceive situations). It argues that across these three domains there are six primary mechanisms of techno-moral change: (i) adding options; (ii) changing decision-making costs; (iii) enabling new relationships; (iv) changing the burdens and expectations within relationships; (v) changing the balance of power in relationships; and (vi) changing perception (information, mental models and metaphors). The paper also discusses the layered, interactive and second-order effects of these mechanisms.

DOI 10.1007/s10677-023-10397-x

Mechanisms of Techno-moral Change in Zotero PDF

Author moved from mitigating harm of algo systems to the moral standpoint that actively resisting, sabotaging, ending AI with attached political projects are valid reaction to harm. So he's moving from monster adaptation / cultural category adaptation to monster slaying cf [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]]. I empathise but also wonder, bc of the mention of the political projects / structures attached, about polarisation in response to monster embracers (there are plenty) shifting the [[Overton window 20201024155353]] towards them.

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

generative AI as very smart and super incompetent at the same time, which is hard to reconcile. Is this a [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]] style cultural category challenge? Or is the basic one replacing human cognition?

When hype is used to influence public opinion, there's a obligation to resist. (Vgl [[Crap detection is civic duty 2018010073052]], en [[Progress is civic duty of reflection 20190912114244]]) Also with which realm of [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]] are we dealing here with this type of response? In the comments on Masto it's partly positioned as monster slaying, but that certainly isn't it. It's warning against monster embracing. I think the responses fall more into monster adaptation than assimiliation, as it aims to retain existing cultural categories although recognising the challenges issued against it. Not even sure the actual LLM is the monster perceived, but its origins and the intentions and values of the company behind it. Placing it outside the Monster realm entirely.