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

Show threadSeth LazarOct 30, 2022
@susser @jbigham @cfiesler @Riedl @geomblog @mikarv @andresmh yeah that’s what I’m thinking—it could help w both community and serendipitous discovery. Also an opportunity for collective deliberation and decision-making.
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@lyel I just finished The Telling, by Le Guin, which was my first time reading, and was characteristically elegiac and thought-provoking. Planning on reading Infomocracy next. Any other recos?
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
@BenPatrickWill @inquiline I LOVE this book and yes have been thinking about it on here lots. One thing I like is ‘the algorithm’ isn’t the enemy, is designed in a way that supports collective deliberation.
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.
Show threadSeth LazarOct 30, 2022
@mikarv @geomblog @Riedl @susser Come to think of it, why not have a hands-on session at FAccT23 (maybe in the CRAFT stream) where people discuss all these things and make/adapt something that reflects their needs/interests?
Show threadSeth LazarOct 30, 2022
@mikarv @geomblog @mdekstrand @Riedl @susser it’s hard to keep track of replies on here! But yes what Michael said.
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@susser @geomblog @mikarv @Riedl yep the FAccT Slack is much more for organising the conf, and making announcements to people who don’t like twitter.
Show threadSeth LazarOct 30, 2022
@mikarv @susser @bkeegan What’s the principle again about how hashtags work on here? I’ve definitely seen stuff come up from outside the instance I’m on, eg on the twittermigration one. That seems the simplest solution for having a common space with multiple homes if it would work…