Seth Lazar

@sethlazar
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Philosopher at Australian National University, writing about the moral and political philosophy of computing. PI of Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Research Lab. #FAccT Executive Committee, Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI. He/him.
About mehttps://sethlazar.xyz
MINT Research Labhttps://mintresearch.org
Seth LazarOct 30, 2022
Michael VealeOct 30, 2022

Researchers in digital technologies, law, policy and society in the Fediverse/Mastodon, fill in the form to add your handle to the spreadsheet, and consult the results to see if there are people you'd like to follow! (Inspired by @konrad's effort to gather historians)

Form: https://forms.office.com/r/mPLptbqccP

Results: https://liveuclac-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/personal/ucqnmve_ucl_ac_uk/ES11jfqXsNVNpd1roXFokNkBzRux6n2xThtV4CsgqpSj8g?e=rKrajY

(I tried to host the form on my NextCloud server in federated spirit, but forms there don't support sharing results live yet).

Microsoft Forms

Seth LazarOct 30, 2022
Show threadDr. Casey FieslerOct 30, 2022
@Riedl @geomblog @susser @sethlazar @mikarv I've been thinking about academic communities becoming somewhat splintered - e.g. there's both hci.social (where I am) and vis.social which I imagine have some overlap. In the end I don't think it matters much (because of who you can follow), but fwiw I think facct people would be very welcome on hci!
Seth LazarOct 30, 2022
My Houston—Sydney flight is going to be 17h45!! It’s the third longest flight in the world I think. Bloody hell.
Seth LazarOct 30, 2022
Daniel SusserOct 30, 2022

Has anyone found or spun up an STS/critical tech instance yet?

Seems like local feeds could be the best thing about this place—being able to experience communicative spaces without first having to connect with each member would give new entrants more visibility, make amassing high follower-counts/being at the center of dense networks less important

Seth LazarOct 30, 2022
Rachel ColdicuttOct 28, 2022
I just tried to make my Mastodon bio a bit more explanatory. I've noticed it can be tough to work out who people are and what they might be posting if you don't recognise their name/profile pic. As character counts are longer there's a chance to say more, and I've opted to explain the kinds of things I'm likely to post, not where I work, so people can see what they're in for. This feels like a chance to build community with intention, not just replicate Twitter, so am up for exploring that.
Seth LazarOct 30, 2022
Some pretty waterfalls in Cornell, in fall
Seth LazarOct 29, 2022
Eugen RochkoOct 29, 2022
Looking for #iOS developers to work in tandem with our UX designers on our open-source iOS app on a contract basis. Please reach out to [email protected] if you're interested.
Seth LazarOct 29, 2022
Had great chats with two #FAccT legends, Karen Levy and Jon Kleinberg yesterday. Looking forward to the 2023 edition, hoping we’ll have lots of the OGs as well as all the more recent arrivals like me.
Seth LazarOct 29, 2022
Trying to think of ways to find FAccT community content on here—it looks like the only way to make stuff searchable is with a hashtag, and we don’t have a local instance (yet). So maybe #FAccT will help? And I guess #philosophy for me too? Anyone want to try make that work?
Seth LazarOct 29, 2022
Sarah T. RobertsOct 28, 2022
It helps to remember that the current business model that dominates the social internet is about 15 years old. That’s not long. We can re/imagine other ways of connecting.