Phil Windley

AUGUST 30, 2021

Summary: Corporate and hierarchical, bureaucracies strive for legibility. Scott's point is that bureaucracy aims for legibility in order to serve its own purposes—and usually fails in that effort. The primary reason states want legibility of citizens is taxes (and historically conscription). But that's not very legible.

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Phil Windley

MAY 25, 2021

Legibility. Legibility is a term used to describe how administrative systems make things governable by simplifying, inventorying, and rationalizing things around them. Scott's seminal book, Seeing Like a State, nicely analyzes legibility and its unintended consequences. Precisely because they are administrative.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Andisearch AI feels like the marriage of Google and ChatGPT Similarly, when users pin tabs, the AI endeavors to abbreviate the tab label for enhanced legibility. It’s likely that once the preferred features are established, a price tag will be attached to Arc Max. Launching ChatGPT with a keyboard shortcut proves handy.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 9, 2021

But we've accepted long-lived relationships with full legibility of patrons as the default on the web. Tags: identity ssi privacy relationships. Of course, in the digital world, very few meaningful transactions are done outside of some administrative identity system. Some of that is driven by convenience.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 21, 2021

In this post, I explore a method for conditional legibility of private communications. Tags: identity ssi didcomm privacy cryptography. Summary: The self-sovereign internet underscores a tension between those who desire perfect oversight of society and those who desire perfect privacy.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 18, 2010

There are already an array of models, from trying to create something decent to making it barely legible (though in all cases keyword-dense). Tags: Crowdsourcing Future of media Social media associatedcontent crowdsourced demandmedia helium seed. This will make it all the harder to sort through what is worth reading and what isn't.

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Phil Windley

APRIL 26, 2021

We build bureaucracies and enact laws to try to make chaotic systems legible. Tags: legitimacy decetrnalization. Humans aren’t good at reasoning about emergent behavior from the coordinated, yet autonomous, behavior of interacting agents. I remember people in the 90’s asking “Who’s in charge of the internet?”.

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