Also note that you will with very high probability interact with processes which explicitly or implicitly have to decide, discretely or continuously, “Is this user competent to make their own decisions?”
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Public Institutions and Vulnerable Populations: Ethics Beyond Shutdown
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But it’s useful to reflect that one doesn’t shut down e.g. public schools just because a public school is a terrible environment for someone with active mental health issues, and one would not shut them even if convinced they uniquely exacerbated those issues.
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Product decisions and mental health: learning from institutional precedent
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Apropos “How does one make product decisions in the light of them potentially e.g. interacting with users who are struggling with mental health issues”, would point out (not for the first time) that this is a thing societal institutions have a lot of prior art on.
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AI Essay Grading Disrupts Teacher Productivity and Workload
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Good essays disrupt the production function of teachers w/r/t essay grading/correction. Some teachers give some students a bit of leeway to take more of their cycles than generally required, some of the time.
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Proof of Work in Education: Performative vs Real Learning
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This has been a recurring theme for me, too. “We will now produce a proof of work because your teacher requires it from us. PoW is a useful concept, and teachers have legitimate authority, but this is similar to dribbling in basketball, rather than similar to math.”
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Phone Discourse: Misattributing Social Change to Technology
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Phone Discourse is the more sophisticated version of “wet streets cause rain”, where someone looks at generation N, compares to generation N-1, observes they experience life differently, and concludes the glowing rectangle is the source of all changes.
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How Graphs Shape Phone Technology Discourse and Perception
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I non-ironically believe this graph is responsible for a lot of Phone Discourse, despite 2008 not being a perceptible bend in the trend.
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Manufacturing Culture and Mine Worker Representation in Media
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(Instead we get our “As a child I yearned for the mines” meme and a visual gag about an Appalachian miner which somehow got past the sensitivity committee. On the nose, but, if “making things is Good” is your message, maybe whatever mine produces is at least as useful as songs.)
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Coming-of-age narrative struggles with mundane workforce reality
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“Nice phase of your life doing art/sports; that prepares you for your *real* life in the email mines” would not be an arc any writer’s room would feel forced into, and yet you could practically feel them struggling with it in the epilogue.
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Creativity and mastery need not abandon childish pursuits
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Oh, final thought: “One day you’ll grow up and put childish things aside” is not a direction one is *forced* to take when discussing creativity, mastery, non-economic pursuits, etc.