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"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @Daojoan

This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of collected metrics and then changing their behaviors on auto-pilot to improve said metrics — without ever asking themselves if the data collected actually represents answers to the right (or even important) questions...

Metrics always invite comparison & competition — on a global scale — often without considering our own subjective contexts/needs/limits/aims...

Does the number of copilot prompts per day on a CTO dashboard indicate a highly productive developer or does a big fat zero merely show a different approach to problem solving?

Does the lack of constant updates to a FLOSS project mean it's become neglected/unusable or does it simply indicate it reached a level of stability?

Likewise, does my product/app need constant UI changes/updates to "streamline" user experience (often without even consulting users) based on some "goal" metrics?

Am I seen as an unproductive FLOSS developer if my public commit log doesn't show daily updates? Do gaps indicate laziness, illness, deep thinking or work on other projects? Like gaps in a CV, will these gaps of activity data hinder future employment chances or would I even want to work with orgs who select on this criteria?

Is a hike only good/better because it exceeds X kilometers or Y elevation meters? How does one measure the stunning views or the quality of the company which shared that experience?

joanwestenberg.com/why-i-gave-

Westenberg. · Why I Gave Up My SmartwatchSomewhere between the first time I tapped my wrist to skip a song and the three hundredth time I anxiously checked my resting heart rate, I started to hate my Apple Watch. The promise of the smartwatch was elegance, convenience, optimization. What I got was constant data drip, subtle panic,
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@ashleygjovik Your paper makes *crucially* important points about how transparency in #DecisionMaking (even without a participatory component) is at the core of the #ClimateEmergency and other major problems facing society, and how ethical actions can be effective. Procedural delay+misrepresentation+hiding information are ineffective in Debian, Wikipedia, FOSS. Making them ineffective in universities and other institutions is doable.

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Governance concept for online communities [5]:

- exit (e.g. #HelloQuitX or fork a FOSS project)

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- #AffectiveVoice - consultation in #DecisionMaking

vs

- #EffectiveVoice - participation in #DecisionMaking

Corollary: providing the conceptual tools and empirical evidence about how online governance can evolve away from implicit feudalism and towards effective voice could have *huge* local and global sociopolitical benefits. Cyberspace has real sociopolitical power in the 2020s.

🔔 New Essay 🔔

"The Intelligent AI Coin: A Thought Experiment"

Open Access here: seanfobbe.com/posts/2025-02-21

Recent years have seen a concerning trend towards normalizing decisionmaking by Large Language Models (LLM), including in the adoption of legislation, the writing of judicial opinions and the routine administration of the rule of law. AI agents acting on behalf of human principals are supposed to lead us into a new age of productivity and convenience. The eloquence of AI-generated text and the narrative of super-human intelligence invite us to trust these systems more than we have trusted any human or algorithm ever before.

It is difficult to know whether a machine is actually intelligent because of problems with construct validity, plagiarism, reproducibility and transferability in AI benchmarks. Most people will either have to personally evaluate the usefulness of AI tools against the benchmark of their own lived experience or be forced to trust an expert.

To explain this conundrum I propose the Intelligent AI Coin Thought Experiment and discuss four objections: the restriction of agents to low-value decisions, making AI decisionmakers open source, adding a human-in-the-loop and the general limits of trust in human agents.

@histodons @politicalscience

seanfobbe.com · [Essay] The Intelligent AI Coin: A Thought Experiment
More from Seán Fobbe

You ever just sit and think about decisions you have to make in the future and wonder to yourself, are they drastic? Are they right? Are they wrong? Will they affect just you? Will they affect others? Will you regret the decision(s) you make, regardless if they feel right to you?

Surely that's not something that is just a me issue and that I'm struggling with currently.

“Currently, #Internet companies collect #data about where we go #online and use this data to present us with #ads (#advertisements) or other #content we may be interested in. Dr. #YaqubChaudhary and Dr #JonniePenn, working out of #Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence #LCFI, have identified startling new ways #AI is seeking to control our #DecisionMaking at the earliest possible steps.”

Neat and tidy. Finally a use for AI as a power guzzling bullshit machine for advertising. Don’t get, “grabbed by your Norbots” 🤣

#AI / #IntentionEconomy / #Techweenies <thedebrief.org/tech-companies->

I'll be on #sabbatical next academic year (August 2025 - June 2026), and will be able to go on research stays and visits to other labs.

I'm interested in topics related to #DecisionMaking, #Attention, #Teamwork, #HumanFactors, #AppliedPsychology VR/AR/UX, and #CognitivePsychology. Shared projects, data collections, analysis, theoretical work, preparing applications, learning methods or teaching could all be of interest. Or just networking!

Any ideas (or invitations!) for where I could go?

"In a #consensus decision-making process, the decision and the buy-in land at the same time. Rather than making a decision and then getting everyone on board, you get everyone on board, at which point the decision is clear."

by Mandy Brown: everythingchanges.us/blog/cons

everything changesConsenting to decisions | everything changesDon’t sleep on consensus decision-making processes.