I have heard it said that good sex can keep someone in a bad relationship; after reading and researching David Graeber’s Debt I think much the same can be said of good writing and bad ideas. This book has haunted me for the last few years; I need to
I wrote this essay as part of applications to several graduate programs. In this essay, I argue that the transparency reports of the Digital Services Act (DSA) do not provide the information needed to meaningfully evaluate online service providers’ content moderation practices. The DSA introduced a range of measures aimed
The following is an essay that I submitted to apply for several graduate courses. Short of hitting themself quite hard in the head, a human cannot easily adjust their capacity for moral judgement. In contrast, some non-human ‘self adjusting’ agents, such as corporations, are able to alter their moral capacities.
Our choice of laundry liquids or clothes brands - that is, our individual consumer choices- cannot solve climate change or poverty. Similarly, we do not trust individuals’ ability to alter their own decision-making when it comes to issues such as discrimination during hiring. The typical progressive impulse in such situations
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