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Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview
John Danaher, Philosophical Disquisitions, 2023/06/13

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John Danaher writes "The goal of this paper (authored by himself and Henrik Skaug Sætra) is to bring some order to existing discussions by proposing a taxonomy of mechanisms of techno-moral change. We argue that there are six primary mechanisms through which technology can alter moral beliefs and practices and that these slot into three main categories (decisional, relational, perceptual)." I think this is useful work, first, by acknowledging that technical change is often followed by ethical change, and second, in trying to identify some of the relevant ways this works.

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AR/VR Headsets Continue Decline as VR Sets Plummet
THE Journal, 2023/06/13

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AR and VR will make a comeback. It always makes a comback. So the present state of panic can be ignored. "In 2022, AR/VR headset manufacturers shipped 8.8 million units in all of 2022, down 20.9% over the previous year. Now, in the first quarter, shipments fell even further — 54.4% compared with the same period last year." *yawn*

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Welcome to Second Breakfast
Audrey Watters, Second Breakfast, 2023/06/13

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Everyone will be interested in Audrey Watter's new writing project. Here it is, " a new writing project on food and fitness technologies, on the 'optimization' and 'data-fication' of the body — or at least of my grieving and aging and traumatized body. " As we get more and more computer-based and AI-based assessment in learning, the connection with this subject will be  lear.

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The Practical Guides for Large Language Models
Jingfeng Yang, GitHub, 2023/06/13

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What attracted me to this practical guide was the image near the top summarizing the evolution of various large language models (LLM). In addition to summarizing the different systems, the article also collects lists of resources on topics (such as pretraining or fine-tuning data), types of tasks, and issues such as efficiency and trustworthiness.

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Communities of Practice Within and Across Organizations: A Guidebook
Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Beverly Wenger-Trayner, Phil Reid, Claude Bruderlein, 2023/06/13

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This book (241 page PDF) is the latest release from the authority on communities of practice. From the back cover: "What does it take to launch and sustain a community of practice initiative? This book helps guide individuals, teams, and organizations through the process... It is for organizational leaders creating a conducive environment, community leaders launching and sustaining their communities, people in various roles facilitating meetings, activities, and the use of technology, and evaluators accounting for the value communities create." Haven't read it but would be remiss if I didn't pass this along.

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