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Ariel Guersenzvaig

@interacciones.org

Philosopher of technology. Senior lecturer. Thinks and writes about how we shape and are shaped by things. Book: 'The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers' (Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022). Foreigner in Barcelona. interacciones.org

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Prosciutto is nowhere near as good as jamón ibérico (I’ve been told), so the loss is on USAmericans.

03.03.2026 17:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Spanish government denied the US permission to use the Rota bases in Southern Spain. Trump is not happy and he just decided to cancel all trade. Maybe he will bomb us next?

03.03.2026 17:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You are prompting it wrong and you need a ~200-line instruction file. 😜

03.03.2026 17:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, right? Do we need it? Is it good?

03.03.2026 16:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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AI research assistants, intrinsic values, and the science we want - AI & SOCIETY AI & SOCIETY -

We have a paper on AI&Soc with @javisamo.bsky.social that is precisely about the issues you mention. You might like it link.springer.com/article/10.1...

03.03.2026 16:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
We have invented technologies, from axes to helicopters, that boost our physical capabilities; and others, like spreadsheets, that automate complex tasks; but we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence.

We have invented technologies, from axes to helicopters, that boost our physical capabilities; and others, like spreadsheets, that automate complex tasks; but we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence.

And they cite Mollick, “the AI expert and bestselling author of Co-Intelligence,” not once, not twice, but thrice. The same guy who believes that “we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence”…

02.03.2026 17:22 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Empathy is More Than Just a Word: Reflecting on “Empathic” Chatbots and the Purpose of Using Generative AI in Healthcare Click on the article title to read more.

También puedes ver esto de Dagmar Monett y mío zenodo.org/records/1828... y en línea con el comentario de @olivia.science la parte sobre construct validity en la sec. 4: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

02.03.2026 15:19 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Empathy is More Than Just a Word: Reflecting on “Empathic” Chatbots and the Purpose of Using Generative AI in Healthcare Click on the article title to read more.

I’m late, but this looks monumental! I look forward to reading it. ICYI, we cite your piece in The Guardian in our editorial commentary about “empathic” chatbots. We also talk about thickness, ie Williams’ thick ethical concepts
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

02.03.2026 11:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of Companion’s Einstein landing page with the text: Meet Einstein
Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically.

Screenshot of Companion’s Einstein landing page with the text: Meet Einstein Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically.

I’m not sure I’m actually happy you have, because N&T has become my default mental model for approaching current reality…

01.03.2026 09:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

El clásico “you’re prompting it wrong”…

23.02.2026 13:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can adding boiling water to a bowl of instant Knorr Carbonara Pasta teach students to cook better?

22.02.2026 19:56 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement Author Ashley Shew shares 5 key insights from her new book, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement.

Random Reply Guy #2 to Random Reply Guy #1: read this book by @ashleyshoo.bsky.social nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/tec...

22.02.2026 08:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And the same guy who said we are all stochastic parrots. Misanthropic to the bone.

21.02.2026 19:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kombucha girl meme:
First image, disgusted: Artificial colors in food
Second image, approving: children in concentration camps

Kombucha girl meme: First image, disgusted: Artificial colors in food Second image, approving: children in concentration camps

21.02.2026 17:12 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Dscursos y preguntas como estas no merecen ser tomados en serio. En este caso solo podríamos fingir tomar la pregunta en serio porque no podemos abstraernos de nuestros valores. Por eso está bien no responder: mejor rechazar, marginar, ridiculizar o simplemente ignorar.

19.02.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

No estamos obligados a argumentar en los términos del otro. No tenemos porqué explicar porqué violar niños está mal. Hacerlo no encaja con nuestras formas de argumentar y con nuestras prácticas de justificación. No porque no se pueda explicar “objetivamente”, sino porque no es una opción “viva”.>

19.02.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Ante la presentación de algo abominable como objeto de debate, la reacción de no contestar es muy razonable.
Como dice Rorty: “deberíamos aceptar el hecho de que tenemos que partir de donde estamos, y que esto significa que hay numerosas perspectivas que simplemente no podemos tomar en serio”.>

19.02.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/jose...

18.02.2026 16:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of “Making technology masculine” by Ruth Oldenziel.

Cover of “Making technology masculine” by Ruth Oldenziel.

…and before that, redefining technology to mean machinery developed by men.

18.02.2026 16:01 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Conducting bibliographical research exceeds instrumental as it enables us to develop our own research ideas, thus increasing our capacity for critical thinking and creativity, which have intrinsic value. Good bibliographical research situates our work and positions us within an academic tradition, which can and does affect our identity and the values and beliefs we adopt as researchers and as individuals. Doing bibliographical research is part of the process of constructing a conceptual and theoretical scaffold for our own thinking about the topics we are researching. These scaffolds, in turn, are part of dialogical agreements and disputes over vocabularies, traditions, and methods with those that preceded us. A literature review is a very sophisticated way of deliberation.

Conducting bibliographical research exceeds instrumental as it enables us to develop our own research ideas, thus increasing our capacity for critical thinking and creativity, which have intrinsic value. Good bibliographical research situates our work and positions us within an academic tradition, which can and does affect our identity and the values and beliefs we adopt as researchers and as individuals. Doing bibliographical research is part of the process of constructing a conceptual and theoretical scaffold for our own thinking about the topics we are researching. These scaffolds, in turn, are part of dialogical agreements and disputes over vocabularies, traditions, and methods with those that preceded us. A literature review is a very sophisticated way of deliberation.

We wrote something along these lines with @javisamo.bsky.social in our AI&Society paper about “AI assistants” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

18.02.2026 06:59 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Unsurprisingly, it fits the pattern of the term AGI being used mostly by the most despicable people and by those who admire them.

AGI = 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

17.02.2026 09:40 👍 28 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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Es hora de que la "IA" haga un fork - Less is Less No más exhortaciones para que los mantenedores de proyectos de código abierto hagan esto o aquello

Me explayo sobre el último drama en el mundo del código abierto (un agente generó un artículo de blog insultando a un mantenedor que había cerrado su pull request), por qué debemos rechazar la urgencia para adoptar la "IA" como proponen @interacciones.org y D. Monett, y cuál es la alternativa.

16.02.2026 20:10 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Technological Disobedience in Naples - Contributo su Rivista, Southern Identity (14): 85 - ISBN 978-88-5509-607-2, 978-88-5509-608-9 | Request PDF Request PDF | On Dec 1, 2024, Benedetta Toledo published Technological Disobedience in Naples - Contributo su Rivista, Southern Identity (14): 85 - ISBN 978-88-5509-607-2, 978-88-5509-608-9 | Find, re...

I remember this paper presented at the 14th edition of the International Conference on Design History and Studies (ICDHS 14) in Delhi, which had lots of great examples from Italy (Italian jugaad!) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

16.02.2026 17:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ernesto Oroza’s Technological Disobedience project celebrates Cuban ingenuity | Assemble Papers

assemblepapers.com.au/2017/04/28/t....

16.02.2026 17:13 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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In Philippine Slums, Capturing Light In A Bottle For poor families in the Philippines, electrical bills are a huge burden. But an old soda bottle, filled with water and bleach, can be turned into a 55-watt bulb with the help of the tropical sun.

www.npr.org/2011/12/28/1...

16.02.2026 16:46 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Captura del diario El País. La España apretada de los casi 50 millones de habitantes
AMANDA MARS / DANIELE GRASSO (GRÁFICOS) | Madrid
La concentración demográfica, el crecimiento económico y el turismo tiran de las costuras del país
'Un país que se satura', por Raymond
Torres
Aglomeraciones en la estación de metro de Plaza Cataluña, en
Barcelona. GIANLUCA BATTISTA
Foto de una multitud de personas entrando y saliendo de un tren.

Captura del diario El País. La España apretada de los casi 50 millones de habitantes AMANDA MARS / DANIELE GRASSO (GRÁFICOS) | Madrid La concentración demográfica, el crecimiento económico y el turismo tiran de las costuras del país 'Un país que se satura', por Raymond Torres Aglomeraciones en la estación de metro de Plaza Cataluña, en Barcelona. GIANLUCA BATTISTA Foto de una multitud de personas entrando y saliendo de un tren.

¿Qué es esta bazofia que le hace el juego a los fascistas? España apretada… País que se satura… Menciones a la población extranjera…. Cada día estoy más cerca de cancelar mi suscripción a @elpais.com

15.02.2026 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

En Pesadilla en la cocina de Chicote se ve seguido: el dueño de un restaurant con 2 clientes y 4 empleados tiene una deuda de 120 mil euros ademas de la hipoteca de la casa de sus padres. La diferencia es que este pobre tío y sus padres se van a hundir mientras que el otro se irá de rositas.

15.02.2026 08:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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El terremoto de la última versión de la IA alarma a los expertos: “El mundo está en peligro” Arrecian las voces que advierten sobre las consecuencias para la sociedad de los últimos modelos de inteligencia artificial y sobre despidos masivos en tareas de cuello blanco

Debe haber pocos artículos más alarmistas, más llenos de falacias, más sesgados, más exagerados y más absurdos que esta basura con cero datos y cero verificaciones que publicó @elpais.com hoy.
elpais.com/economia/202...

14.02.2026 22:43 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

1969: Universities: M.I.T. and the Pentagon time.com/archive/6634...

14.02.2026 22:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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El terremoto de la última versión de la IA alarma a los expertos: “El mundo está en peligro” Arrecian las voces que advierten sobre las consecuencias para la sociedad de los últimos modelos de inteligencia artificial y sobre despidos masivos en tareas de cuello blanco

Debe haber pocos artículos más alarmistas, más llenos de falacias, más sesgados, más exagerados y más absurdos que esta basura con cero datos y cero verificaciones que publicó @elpais.com hoy.
elpais.com/economia/202...

14.02.2026 22:43 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0