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Software (OSS) and regulation by algorithms", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/11/18/open-source-software-oss-and-regulation-by-algorithms/", "published_at": "2019-11-18T16:16:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-e424-70e9-b1cf-17fba1b1c478", "title": "The diverging philosophical roots of U.S. and E.U. privacy regimes", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/11/14/the-diverging-philosophical-roots-of-u-s-and-e-u-privacy-regimes/", "published_at": "2019-11-14T16:31:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-e424-70e9-b1cf-17fba26dce94", "title": "Notes on Krussell & Smith, 1998 and macroeconomic theory", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/11/09/notes-on-krussell-smith-1998-and-macroeconomic-theory/", "published_at": "2019-11-09T17:39:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-e424-70e9-b1cf-17fba2cd4bf8", "title": "Explainable AI and computational approaches to macroeconomic theory", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/11/04/explainable-ai-and-computational-approaches-to-macroeconomic-theory/", "published_at": "2019-11-04T19:35:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-cd2d-729a-a759-54fdc0c9663e", "title": "Herbert Simon and the missing science of interagency", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/10/28/herbert-simon-and-the-missing-science-of-interagency/", "published_at": "2019-10-28T12:44:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-cd2d-729a-a759-54fdc0e4378b", "title": "“Private Companies and Scholarly Infrastructure”", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/10/22/private-companies-and-scholarly-infrastructure/", "published_at": "2019-10-22T18:02:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-cd2d-729a-a759-54fdc1685f0c", "title": "Ashby’s Law and AI control", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/09/22/ashbys-law-and-ai-control/", "published_at": "2019-09-22T20:37:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-cd2d-729a-a759-54fdc254d56a", "title": "Bridging between transaction cost and traditional economics", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/09/16/bridging-between-transaction-cost-and-traditional-economics/", "published_at": "2019-09-16T15:14:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-cd2d-729a-a759-54fdc268fb6c", "title": "The ontology of software, revisited", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/08/25/the-ontology-of-software-revisited/", "published_at": "2019-08-25T13:52:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-cd2d-729a-a759-54fdc29ab420", "title": "ethnography is not the only social science tool for algorithmic impact assessment", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/04/19/ethnography-is-not-the-only-social-science-tool-for-algorithmic-impact-assessment/", "published_at": "2019-04-19T17:50:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-cd2d-729a-a759-54fdc2a2c915", "title": "Neutral, Autonomous, and Pluralistic conceptions of law and technology (Hildebrandt, Smart Technologies, sections 8.1-8.2)", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/03/25/hildebrandt-smart-technologies-sections-8-1-8-2/", "published_at": "2019-03-26T02:19:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-cd2d-729a-a759-54fdc2ec22cf", "title": "Antinomianism and purposes as reasons against computational law (Notes on Hildebrandt, Smart Technologies, Sections 7.3-7.4)", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/03/14/antinomianism-and-purposes-as-reasons-against-computational-law-notes-on-hildebrandt-smart-technologies-sections-7-3-7-4/", "published_at": "2019-03-14T23:41:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-cd2d-729a-a759-54fdc3532266", "title": "Response to Abdurahman", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/02/26/response-to-abdurahman/", "published_at": "2019-02-26T16:14:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-cd2d-729a-a759-54fdc368e394", "title": "Beginning to read “Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law” (Notes on: Hildebrandt, Smart Technologies, Sections 7.1-7.2)", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/02/23/beginning-to-read-smart-technologies-and-the-ends-of-law-notes-on-hildebrandt-smart-technologies-sections-7-1-7-2/", "published_at": "2019-02-23T16:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-21fb-717a-b62b-b2dc1563298a", "title": "A few brief notes towards “Procuring Cybersecurity”", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/02/16/a-few-brief-notes-towards-procuring-cybersecurity/", "published_at": "2019-02-17T01:27:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-21fb-717a-b62b-b2dc165c555f", "title": "Why STS is not the solution to “tech ethics”", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/02/09/why-sts-is-not-the-solution-to-tech-ethics/", "published_at": "2019-02-09T22:14:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-21fb-717a-b62b-b2dc16810326", "title": "All the problems with our paper, “Racial categories in machine learning”", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/02/02/all-the-problems-with-our-paper-racial-categories-in-machine-learning/", "published_at": "2019-02-02T19:20:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-21fb-717a-b62b-b2dc17248628", "title": "Notes on O’Neil, Chapter 2, “Bomb Parts”", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/01/15/notes-on-oneil-chapter-2-bomb-parts/", "published_at": "2019-01-16T04:44:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-21fb-717a-b62b-b2dc17ec755e", "title": "Reading O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/01/12/reading-oneils-weapons-of-math-destruction/", "published_at": "2019-01-12T20:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-21fb-717a-b62b-b2dc1839a600", "title": "computational institutions as non-narrative collective action", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2019/01/09/3675/", "published_at": "2019-01-09T15:54:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-21fb-717a-b62b-b2dc18bc9a92", "title": "State regulation and/or corporate self-regulation", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/12/30/state-regulation-and-or-corporate-self-regulation/", "published_at": "2018-12-30T20:39:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-21fb-717a-b62b-b2dc19042892", "title": "Ordoliberalism and industrial organization", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/12/24/ordoliberalism-and-industrial-organization/", "published_at": "2018-12-24T14:32:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-21fb-717a-b62b-b2dc19bc7cc0", "title": "When *shouldn’t* you build a machine learning system?", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/12/22/when-shouldnt-you-build-a-machine-learning-system/", "published_at": "2018-12-22T18:47:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-21fb-717a-b62b-b2dc19f20a4a", "title": "computational institutions", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/12/22/computational-institutions/", "published_at": "2018-12-22T16:59:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-9b1d-70f5-a230-8a0a9598da78", "title": "The secret to social forms has been in institutional economics all along?", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/12/13/the-secret-to-social-forms-has-been-in-institutional-economics-all-along/", "published_at": "2018-12-14T04:04:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-9b1d-70f5-a230-8a0a9621d7d6", "title": "Transaction cost economics and privacy: looking at Hoofnagle and Whittington’s “Free”", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/12/09/transaction-cost-economics-and-privacy-looking-at-hoofnagle-and-whittingtons-free/", "published_at": "2018-12-09T21:01:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-9b1d-70f5-a230-8a0a966e4eb6", "title": "Data isn’t labor because using search engines is really easy", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/12/06/data-isnt-labor-because-using-search-engines-is-really-easy/", "published_at": "2018-12-06T20:23:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-9b1d-70f5-a230-8a0a9726635b", "title": "the make or buy decision (TCE) in the software and cybersecurity", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/12/04/the-make-or-buy-decision-tce-in-the-software-and-cybersecurity/", "published_at": "2018-12-04T16:51:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-9b1d-70f5-a230-8a0a981a4126", "title": "Williamson on four injunctions for good economics", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/12/03/williamson-on-four-injunctions-for-good-economics/", "published_at": "2018-12-03T16:41:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-9b1d-70f5-a230-8a0a9899c39b", "title": "Discovering transaction cost economics (TCE)", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/12/02/discovering-transaction-cost-economics-tce/", "published_at": "2018-12-02T22:31:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-9b1d-70f5-a230-8a0a98a74a27", "title": "For fairness in machine learning, we need to consider the unfairness of racial categorization", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/11/29/for-fairness-in-machine-learning-we-need-to-consider-the-unfairness-of-racial-categorization/", "published_at": "2018-11-29T15:05:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-9b1d-70f5-a230-8a0a98b5dabe", "title": "Is competition good for cybersecurity?", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/11/25/is-competition-good-for-cybersecurity/", "published_at": "2018-11-26T00:36:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-9b1d-70f5-a230-8a0a98d01e46", "title": "“the privatization of public functions”", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/11/18/the-privatization-of-public-functions/", "published_at": "2018-11-18T17:25:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55c-9b1d-70f5-a230-8a0a99cca341", "title": "Trade secrecy, “an FDA for algorithms”, a software bills of materials (SBOM) #SecretAlgos", "url": "https://digifesto.com/2018/11/16/trade-secrecy-an-fda-for-algorithms-a-software-bills-of-materials-sbom-secretalgos/", "published_at": "2018-11-16T20:56:31+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

the potential of AI to cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes)original ↗
10 Sept 2026
scikit-agent 0.1.0 released!original ↗
27 Aug 2026
brief theses on wealth and valueoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2026
The Open Silicon Fallacy: How Panic Over Chinese Open-Weight Models Is Distorting American AI Policyoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2026
maybe writing a book about epistemologyoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
some philosophical progress, and next stepsoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2026
LLMs as computationoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2026
updates and stubbornness about superintelligenceoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2026
naturalized ethics and natural laworiginal ↗
2 Jan 2026

2025

I’m building something neworiginal ↗
28 May 2025
What about the loyalty of AI agents in government function?original ↗
6 Feb 2025

2024

Complex systems and ethics according to contextual integrityoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2024
how the science is goingoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2024
I miss writingoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2024
Envisioning the Future of Computer and Information Science Research: Some Ideasoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2024
Political theories and AIoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2024

2023

Open Source Computational Economics: The State of the Artoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2023
Practical social forecastingoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2023
Thoughts on Fiduciary AIoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2023
On the AI Safety and Ethics Debate: From Political to Scientific Answersoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2023
On the (actual and legal) personhood of chatbotsoriginal ↗
7 May 2023
Arguing with Pi about the usefulness of its machine learning techniquesoriginal ↗
6 May 2023
Reflections on the IRTF Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes Research Grouporiginal ↗
15 Apr 2023

2022

So many projects!original ↗
20 Jul 2022
About ethics and familiesoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2022

2021

Towards a Synthesis of Differential Privacy and Contextual Integrityoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2021
Research update: to study the economy of personal dataoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2021
Luhmann, Social Systems, Cha. 1 § Ioriginal ↗
16 Mar 2021
Social justice, rationalism, AI ethics, and libertarianismoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2021
Crypto, macro, and information laworiginal ↗
16 Feb 2021
Hildebrandt (2013) on double contingency in Parsons and Luhmannoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2021
Review: Software Development and Reality Constructionoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2021
Reflections on the Gebru/Google dismissaloriginal ↗
1 Jan 2021

2020

We need a theory of collective agency to guide data intermediary designoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2020
Regulating infoglut?original ↗
25 Sept 2020
double contingency and technologyoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2020
System 2 hegemony and its discontentsoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2020
Looking for references: phenomenology of probabilityoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2020
On Cilliers on “complex systems”original ↗
2 Sept 2020
Schumpeter on Marx as Prophet and Sociologistoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2020
instrumental realism and reproducibility in science and societyoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2020
Sources of the interdisciplinary hierarchyoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2020
TikTok, Essential Infrastructure, and Imperial Regulation by Golden Shareoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2020
Starting to read Schumpeteroriginal ↗
1 Aug 2020
Instrumental realism — a few key pointsoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2020
Considering Agre: More Merleau-Ponty, less Heidegger, in technology design, pleaseoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2020
Is there hypertext law? Is there Python law?original ↗
18 Jul 2020
On descent-based discrimination (a reply to Hanna et al. 2020)original ↗
7 Jul 2020
Notes about “Data Science and the Decline of Liberal Law and Ethics”original ↗
6 Jul 2020
from morality to economics: some stuff about Marx for Tapan Parikhoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2020
A philosophical puzzle: morality with complex rationalityoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2020
Considering the Endless Frontier Actoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2020
Managerialism and Habermasoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2020
Land value taxationoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2020
some PLSC 2020 notes: one framing of the managerialism puzzleoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2020
We should teach economic history (of data) as “data science ethics”.original ↗
19 May 2020
Considering “Neither Hayek nor Habermas”original ↗
6 May 2020
Contradictions in Freedom: the U.S. / China information ideology divideoriginal ↗
3 May 2020
Tech Law and Political Economyoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2020
Internet service providers are utilitiesoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2020
A brief revisit of the Habermas/Luhmann debateoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2020
A note towards formal modeling of informational capitalismoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2020

2019

Why AI ethics is a difficult problemoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2019
In search of an architecture for computational economicsoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2019
Big tech surveillance and human rightsoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2019
Autonomy as link between privacy and cybersecurityoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2019
Open Source Software (OSS) and regulation by algorithmsoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2019
The diverging philosophical roots of U.S. and E.U. privacy regimesoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2019
Notes on Krussell & Smith, 1998 and macroeconomic theoryoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2019
Explainable AI and computational approaches to macroeconomic theoryoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2019
Herbert Simon and the missing science of interagencyoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2019
“Private Companies and Scholarly Infrastructure”original ↗
22 Oct 2019
Ashby’s Law and AI controloriginal ↗
22 Sept 2019
Bridging between transaction cost and traditional economicsoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2019
The ontology of software, revisitedoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2019
ethnography is not the only social science tool for algorithmic impact assessmentoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2019
Neutral, Autonomous, and Pluralistic conceptions of law and technology (Hildebrandt, Smart Technologies, sections 8.1-8.2)original ↗
26 Mar 2019
Antinomianism and purposes as reasons against computational law (Notes on Hildebrandt, Smart Technologies, Sections 7.3-7.4)original ↗
14 Mar 2019
Response to Abdurahmanoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2019
Beginning to read “Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law” (Notes on: Hildebrandt, Smart Technologies, Sections 7.1-7.2)original ↗
23 Feb 2019
A few brief notes towards “Procuring Cybersecurity”original ↗
17 Feb 2019
Why STS is not the solution to “tech ethics”original ↗
9 Feb 2019
All the problems with our paper, “Racial categories in machine learning”original ↗
2 Feb 2019
Notes on O’Neil, Chapter 2, “Bomb Parts”original ↗
16 Jan 2019
Reading O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destructionoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2019
computational institutions as non-narrative collective actionoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2019

2018

State regulation and/or corporate self-regulationoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2018
Ordoliberalism and industrial organizationoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2018
When *shouldn’t* you build a machine learning system?original ↗
22 Dec 2018
computational institutionsoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2018
The secret to social forms has been in institutional economics all along?original ↗
14 Dec 2018
Transaction cost economics and privacy: looking at Hoofnagle and Whittington’s “Free”original ↗
9 Dec 2018
Data isn’t labor because using search engines is really easyoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2018
the make or buy decision (TCE) in the software and cybersecurityoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2018
Williamson on four injunctions for good economicsoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2018
Discovering transaction cost economics (TCE)original ↗
2 Dec 2018
For fairness in machine learning, we need to consider the unfairness of racial categorizationoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2018
Is competition good for cybersecurity?original ↗
26 Nov 2018
“the privatization of public functions”original ↗
18 Nov 2018
Trade secrecy, “an FDA for algorithms”, a software bills of materials (SBOM) #SecretAlgosoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2018
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