https://mikechiasson.ca/ 2026-04-15T15:31:33+00:00 https://mikechiasson.ca/ https://mikechiasson.ca/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-11-02T00:37:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/blog:2024:1029_design_and_reflective_judgments?rev=1730507851&do=diff Design and Reflective Judgments Design and Reflective Judgment are central concepts in an argument about the importance of diverse dialogue and perspectives in the shaping technological design (means and ends). But what is that argument, and what is its validity? Why not let a few individuals make the important decisions, such as the experts who can build the technology, or others experts with the vantages points and authority to discern the goals and ends, such as business managers with the… text/html 2024-11-05T20:36:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/blog:2024:1105_us_election_day?rev=1730838985&do=diff US election Day It's difficult to believe that Donald Trump may become president of the United States once again. That he has been able to influence 49% of the polling population to endorse him and to say they will vote for him is historic. As someone once said., his criminal record would bar him from working at McDonald's, which he pretended to do in a photo op a couple of weeks ago, in response to hearing that, Harris had worked there when she was younger. text/html 2024-11-13T18:40:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/blog:2024:1113_hypocritters?rev=1731523230&do=diff Hypocritters Rick Mercer's alley rant about Stockwell Day, a fundamentalist Christian politician: “He believes in Capital Punishment and Jesus. Is there a version of Jesus that I don't remember?” Hypocritical: Behaving in a way that contradicts one's beliefs. From text/html 2024-11-13T17:41:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/blog:2024:1113_thinking_reflective_judgment_and_ai_design?rev=1731519699&do=diff Thinking, Reflective Judgment and AI Design There is a double aspect to humans, participation, and the design of artificial intelligence systems. It's clear in Hannah's work and the philosophers she draws upon, that “thinking” is only a human activity. Of course, in their time, there may have been limited technology, certainly in Socrates' but also Hannah's time. And so her studies and critiques of technical rationality could only be based on advanced techniques and rules ( text/html 2024-11-13T17:23:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/blog:2024:1113_what_does_hannah_have_to_offer_design?rev=1731518635&do=diff What Does Hannah have to Offer Design? Something is going on in Hannah Arendt's Reflective Judgments for Design. There is also much going on in her thinking related to various extreme political situations right now, and the US has turned towards Donald Trump and authoritarianism, as the rest of the world appears to be heading. text/html 2024-11-20T03:57:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/blog:2024:1116_the_design_of_design_--_feenberg_arendt_and_reflective_judgment?rev=1732075058&do=diff The Design of Design -- Feenberg, Arendt and Reflective Judgment 1. Is participatory design still possible in a meaningful way in this age of large IT firms, AI, and packages? More * This question is the result of a problem with overall distanciation in the design, implementation and use of technology, divorced from the contexts of production and use. text/html 2024-11-20T04:01:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/blog:2024:1120_implications_of_big_efficient_and_small_artisanal_ends_on_participation_in_design?rev=1732075310&do=diff Implications of Big ("Efficient") and Small ("Artisanal") Ends on Participation in Design On the questions of participation in design, it may be that addressing the question, “is participation in design even possible”, entails a tension from two different design scenarios, which may have some common roots (and technologies) text/html 2024-12-04T19:38:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/blog:2024:1204_design_paper_outline?rev=1733341090&do=diff Design Paper Outline Some initial ideas swirl around the metaphysics of design; using the Wikipedia entry, an examination of the fundamental categories into human understanding. (see metaphysics) If design is fundamentally about a object, process, or system to serve some kind of purpose (see