Now you have raised the ante. 😀 I may visit Providence in the fall... Hoping the timing works out...

I am still waiting to have my kaapi with the man ...

@geomblog.bsky.social is showing how humans need to be multimodal to stick it to AI. He can talk, hold a mike and a pen, express his concerned opinions about the AI world and predict the number of days to see a result in the oval cricket game. Wish he was holding a kaapi cup too...

"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings. That is a more subtle problem, but also a more pernicious one. Explaining it is going to require some words."

"If we think that the big problem is disinformation, which might persuade individuals that what is false is in fact true, we are likely to look to one set of remedies. If we think of the problem as malformed publics, then we are in much bigger trouble, without any very obvious technical fixes"

#cricket

Mixing wheat and rice, sort of a desi peace...

Thanks for expressing this clearly. And for what it is worth, I fully resonate, hence my suggestion to not keep notes that can be tracked back.

ha. On a different note, If you replace "coal" with "AI", that's how some people (I don't, for the record) feel about AI's potential to be a useful tool.

Don: wonderful writing! I am inspired to make a trip. will ask you for more details :)

My understanding: I cannot imagine that "law" or the research norms is going to compel you to report on the people you study intimately, whether directly or through a proxy. Probably best not to keep receipts!

Gosh, I did take field notes, but it was private to me, and didn't name people/location etc. but, training others is a tricky matter as well as they writing about it to be potentially legible to you etc. I don't know whether there is going to be an easy answer.

This is NOT an absolute position of course, it depends on the context, and the stakes, etc. hard to generalize.

if you study "corruption", and study it deeply, you may witness acts of it ( like I did!) and I did not report them to the authorities.

I don't quite understand the general context to this question, what is the qualitative research angle to this, as opposed you asking a general ethical question?