“Everything, as they say, is connected to everything else, and not neatly. There is no clearly determinable boundary between the sea and land, between sociology and anthropology, between an automobile’s exhaust and your nose. There are only boundaries of word, thought, perception, and social agreement — artificial, mental model boundaries.” -Donella H. Meadows, in Thinking…
Tag: systems
Truth, trust and autonomous systems
We have a new episode of the Algorithmic Futures Podcast out, and it has me thinking back to my earlier post on objectivity, and the challenges of figuring out what we know — and how we know it. In the podcast episode, our guest, Lyndon Llewellyn from AIMS, presents the kind of scenario that keeps…
Birth in the time of covid
Some of this post could be triggering to those who have experienced birth trauma. Please be mindful of this if you choose to read it. I need to stop following covid case numbers. They aren’t changing anything for me beyond a creeping anxiety that every slight cough my children make is a sign that something…