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Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context

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Re: Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context

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Post by billbrown »

kruffalon wrote: post #21

I'm having immense problems digesting this interview to understand the concept of the uni-context. It does sound very interesting and right up my alley. I also don't seem to be able to use internet search anymore (probably a user error) so if anyone has a link to a document, soundfile or video of Agnes Callard explaining the concept without the interuptions from a interviewer that is more interested in contributing t…

I wish philosophers—everyone, really—would provide a definition of their neologisms. I'd prefer a succinct, Aristotlian one but I'll settle for anything approximating it.

This is probably the best source, but it's completely unavailable online:

https://www.reed.edu/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26even...

Re: Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context

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Post by amarant »

dredmorbius wrote: post #71
amarant wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google had a platform called circles once that had a really neat solution to this. If course it being Google, it got cancelled before it had a chance to catch on.

The platform was called "Google+". The feature was called "Circles".

Really? Huh.... Memory is a fickle thing, isn't it?

Re: Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context

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Post by dredmorbius »

amarant wrote: post #102
dredmorbius wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The platform was called "Google+". The feature was called "Circles".

Really? Huh.... Memory is a fickle thing, isn't it?

There is Dave Eggers's book (and film adaptation) The Circle, which I understood as largely commentary on Google rather than other tech firms, though it's also described as an amalgam of several others. That might be steering your fickle memory ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)#Film...>

Re: Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context

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Post by resters »

jt2190 wrote: post #97
resters wrote: post #29

There are some of us (late generation-X / early millennial) who saw this coming and still maintain a variety of separate identities across many domains. I don't know why someone would want to have the same identity in the workplace as on internet forums, for example. Social media appears to have given many people the idea that they ought to cultivate their public identity from an early age as preparation for internet…

> … internet fame / personal branding. Also known as “social proof”/“social credibility”, and it’s a common mistake to assume it has no value whatsoever.

Does it really matter that a review was written by "Ronald B Smith" vs "BrewersFan4000"?

I'd argue that it only matters when the goal is to convert "real name" accounts into something that is effectively merged with an Experian soft credit score, Google supercookie-powered profile, etc.

Re: Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context

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Post by kruffalon »

billbrown wrote: post #101
kruffalon wrote: post #21

I'm having immense problems digesting this interview to understand the concept of the uni-context. It does sound very interesting and right up my alley. I also don't seem to be able to use internet search anymore (probably a user error) so if anyone has a link to a document, soundfile or video of Agnes Callard explaining the concept without the interuptions from a interviewer that is more interested in contributing t…

I wish philosophers—everyone, really—would provide a definition of their neologisms. I'd prefer a succinct, Aristotlian one but I'll settle for anything approximating it. This is probably the best source, but it's completely unavailable online: https://www.reed.edu/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26even...

What a great link, thanks.

Hopefully there will be some artifacts from this that will be available to the greater public.

Re: Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context

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Post by resters »

giraffe_lady wrote: post #40
resters wrote: post #29

There are some of us (late generation-X / early millennial) who saw this coming and still maintain a variety of separate identities across many domains. I don't know why someone would want to have the same identity in the workplace as on internet forums, for example. Social media appears to have given many people the idea that they ought to cultivate their public identity from an early age as preparation for internet…

If you keep them distinct unification is a weapon to be used against you. You're writing your own blackmail someone just has to call you on it. With prose fingerprinting, sophisticated tracking, now your identities are only separate by rapidly eroding social convention. Intentionally merging them allows you to have control over the process, and helps you maintain discipline about what you reveal where. If you don't d…

How is merging identities the solution?

The goal is not "how can I do blackmail-worthy activities without being blackmailed?" the goal is "how can I participate in a narrow way without, for example, having those reading my content biased by my LinkedIn profile or my corporate affiliation?"

We don't walk around wearing little badges that identify every organization we affiliate with, every group, etc. Why would anyone want their online participation burdened by all that extra (usually irrelevant) information?

In my case, I don't write content I would worry about some determined prose fingerprinter finding, and if I did I would sanitize the prose first :)

Re: Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context

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Post by maheshbansod »

readthenotes1 wrote: post #72
resters wrote: post #29

There are some of us (late generation-X / early millennial) who saw this coming and still maintain a variety of separate identities across many domains. I don't know why someone would want to have the same identity in the workplace as on internet forums, for example. Social media appears to have given many people the idea that they ought to cultivate their public identity from an early age as preparation for internet…

Orson Scott Card saw this coming last century and wrote of a character who maintained 2 online personas who became the thought leaders of opposing groups. Some of the late gen-x/millennials who saw this coming may have been inspired to read Endor's Game after seeing the movie

in Ender's Game, the two leaders of the opposing groups are actually separate characters (the siblings of the main character).
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