hi molly; certainly. while I don’t agree with Nicolas’ tweet verbatim - particularly the “need better critics” bit - what resonated with me personally was being unable to attribute human values, good vs. evil, to an underlying technology platform. note; I interpreted good/bad as value judgments here rather than quality ratings; from a quality perspective, there’s tons of bad tech out there!
in my experience, the communities that build on those platforms are overwhelmingly the most impactful force in its outcome being either positive or negative, and oftentimes the same underlying platform is used and misused to both outcomes by different communities (e.g. the internet). a potential caveat here is how high or low in the stack one considers… I don’t think anyone would propose that SQL is inherently evil, but perhaps there’s specific use cases of higher level technology, particularly in the ai realm, that can make it harder to separate the technology’s potential from how it’s being used. in my interpretation of the tweet above, the “platform” wording made me consider broader, underlying technologies rather than this scenario. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/EZDQXNXQREECM27ZZQZJUC2AP2MDJ35Z/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
