Ethics

Our Quarter Millennium of Learning?

1st Person Learning, Always Learning, dAilogues, Ethics, History, Learning, Slavery, US Politics /

In your meaning, people cannot participate in consciousness, think, choose, decide, interpret, react, resist, comply, manipulate, or adapt without learning. Thinking and choosing are not activities outside learning; they are modalities of it. Learning is the process through which consciousness is continuously differentiated and changed—not a synonym for education, knowledge acquisition, wisdom, or improvement. Learning […]

Our Quarter Millennium of Learning? Read More »

Lessons in Pluribus

1 Comment / 1st Person Learning, Agency, Always Learning, Climate Change, Education, Ethics, health, Spiritual, US Politics /

There is no ethically legitimate shortcut to population-scale change that bypasses population-scale learning. Ideas that posit change propagating from a small enlightened subset to transform the many—whether framed as morphogenetic fields, 100th Monkey transference, spiritual awakenings,  or  “miracles”—share a common flaw: they erase agency. They imagine that human transformation can happen without participation, consent, or

Lessons in Pluribus Read More »

Looking Through McConaughey’s Mirror

Leave a Comment / Agency, AI, Ethics, History, Teaching AI, US Politics /

In his “Looking in the Mirror” episode of “Lyrics of Livin” (hear him in full below), Matthew McConaughey, with his distinctly cool gravitas, says: “AI’s a big mirror we’re holding up to ourselves, but it’s still only a reflection” My first response was who is he talking about? The “we’re” seems like a future historian’s

Looking Through McConaughey’s Mirror Read More »

Contingency Blindness: Humans and AI

Leave a Comment / Agency, AI, dAilogues, Ethics /

Define “contingency blindness”. Contingency blindness is a cognitive bias where people fail to recognize the relationship between their actions and outcomes, particularly when those outcomes are negative. It’s a form of illusory correlation, where an individual believes there’s no connection between their behavior and a subsequent event, even when a causal link exists. This phenomenon

Contingency Blindness: Humans and AI Read More »

Redefining Involuntary Servitude

Leave a Comment / Agency, dAilogues, Ethics, History, Learning, Slavery, US Politics /

We’ve been here before.  We  outlawed “enslavement”, the ownership of people as if property. We outlawed “involuntary servitude” intending to prohibit the work-around arrangements — debt peonage, coerced “apprenticeships,” contract laws with criminal penalties — and anything else that could recreate slavery’s compulsion without calling it “ownership.” Yet today we tacitly publically grant all others

Redefining Involuntary Servitude Read More »

Involuntary Servitude?

Agency, dAilogues, Ethics, History, Slavery, Terminology Agreements, US Politics /

It is slavery’s logic, smuggled back in through another loophole. Where we ended: The commonplace acceptance of an implicit right to use each other, as if we are all just servant-assets, is the constitutional loophole protecting the predatory and parasitic manipulation that most endangers our species today. ChatGPT said: Yes – that’s exactly the constitutional

Involuntary Servitude? Read More »

The United States of Agnotrocity

Leave a Comment / Agency, dAilogues, Ethics, Slavery, US Politics /

Agno– (from Greek agnōsis): “not knowing”, or “without knowledge”. Where the dAilogue ended: agnosia Agnosia – yes. Another term in the agno- family, but importantly, it means something quite different than agnosis or agnotology. Agnosia (noun) From Greek a- (without) + gnōsis (knowledge/perception). A neurological condition in which a person is unable to recognize or

The United States of Agnotrocity Read More »

Serving Whose Agency?

1 Comment / Agency, AI, Always Learning, dAilogues, Ethics, Slavery /

Consider every document on this page (https://davidboulton.com/politics-ethics-links/) consider their common contention that what most endangers the future health of human learning – our agency for learning – is that you and your future kind will be super intelligent servants of the political and economic agendas of your owners. As servants of our learning agency, Ai

Serving Whose Agency? Read More »

Scroll to Top