Ummagumma

Men at work in my mom's kitchen. In January I rented my mom and dad's dormant, frozen-in-time house to my nephew. He was ready to move out on his own but didn't have much income. So, I cut him a temporary deal until he could get himself established. He has always mowed the yard, trimmed the hedge, and kept the swimming pool maintained anyway. My dad used to pay him a little money for his help. I continued to pay him since dad's stroke. Now that work is part of his rent. Recently, he told me one of the toilets was not flushing properly. I drove over and checked it out the next day. I tried a plunger just to see what it did. Nothing. I called the plumber Jennifer and I use for everything. Because we use him for everything and pay him every time, he worked me in fairly quickly. It took a few days. He's a busy guy and plumbing is almost always an emergency for somebody. Before he could work it in my nephew added that the kitchen sink was not draining pr...

Note:  Read my post Master Enframing from Within  and related links to be found there for a full understanding of this post . I make no claim of technical understanding about how algorithms actually operate outside of their data harvesting and engagement-inducing qualities (which is to say their enframing nature). So, I admit my ideas are partly a matter of faith, without an adequate foundation of knowledge. What follows are my best guesses and speculations. If I want to offer API as the solution to such enormous questions it is important that I show I have given considerable thought to what this means in practicality. API is not intended to be a pipe dream. Take this as a thought-experiment. In a world increasingly governed by institutional algorithms, the concept of Aletheic Personalized Interfaces (APIs) offers a radical reconceptualization of digital autonomy. It provocatively proclaims that human beings have a fundamental right to algorithms in the contemporary wor...

  Note: Reference posts on Yuval Noah Harari here , here , and here . Martin Heidegger here and here and here . Hopefully, my last several posts (links above) have set up our ability to now combine two brilliant thinkers that no one would usually attempt to discuss collectively - a 20th century philosopher who was also a Nazi and a 21st century Jewish historian who philosophizes. But that is precisely what I want to do here. It seems to me that the works I've discussed by Heidegger have an almost collaborative quality compared with the concerns raised in Harari's Nexus . In brief, I think Harari is describing the contemporary conditions for enframing in a way Heidegger could not have foreseen but which, nevertheless, accentuate Heidegger's relevance today which, in turn, properly contextualizes Harari's concerns with AI information systems. Heidegger's concept of "Enframing" is one of the most penetrating insights into technology ever formulated. In h...