The Bentway, Fort York Boulevard, Toronto, ON, Canada
Contact: seanaubin@gmail.com
There are dozens of think-pieces about how the internet changed our social environment for the worse. But the LessWrong and ACX communities are nice/helpful? What makes an online social space meaningful? What’s can be done beyond moderation and nudging users?
This is where the conversation will start, but I fully expect it to meander and for sub-conversations to develop! Still attend if you haven’t done the readings!
Readings
Two proposals to make internet social spaces and their effect on meat-space less miserable:
Less Miserable: Online Social Spaces
There are dozens of think-pieces about how the internet changed our social environment for the worse. But the LessWrong and ACX communities are nice/helpful? What makes an online social space meaningful? What’s can be done beyond moderation and nudging users?
This is where the conversation will start, but I fully expect it to meander and for sub-conversations to develop! Still attend if you haven’t done the readings!
Readings
Two proposals to make internet social spaces and their effect on meat-space less miserable:
Values Based Social Design, as presented in How to Make Tech Products (that Don’t Cause Depression and War)
The Center for Humane Technology, via their course excerpt The Breakdown of Shared Understanding
Location
Picnic tables located in The Bentway, which is the sheltered area underneath the Gardiner Expressway. ///workforce.inched.promotes
This will probably be the last outdoors meetup!