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How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/culture/700082/nyt-mamdani-news-judgment
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p102#a250708p102

A Framework for Ethical Judgment of Smart City Applications
Weichen Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05172 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0…

A Framework for Ethical Judgment of Smart City Applications
As modern cities increasingly adopt a variety of sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to collect and analyze data about residents, environments, and public services, they are fostering greater interactions among smart city applications, residents, governments, and businesses. This trend makes it essential for regulators to focus on these interactions to manage smart city practices effectively and prevent unethical outcomes. To facilitate ethical analysis for smart city applications…

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

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Unexplainability of Artificial Intelligence Judgments in Kant's Perspective
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, a major contribution to the history of epistemology, proposes a table of categories to elucidate the structure of the a priori principles underlying human judgment. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology, grounded in functionalism, claims to simulate or replicate human judgment. To evaluate this claim, it is necessary to examine whether AI judgments exhibit the essential characteristics of human judgment. This paper investigates the unexplainability of AI judgme…

Judgment as Coordination: A Joint Systems View of Visualization Design Practice
Paul C. Parsons, Arran Ridley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01209 https://

Judgment as Coordination: A Joint Systems View of Visualization Design Practice
Professional visualization design has become an increasingly important area of inquiry, yet much of the field's discourse remains anchored in researcher-centered contexts. Studies of design practice often focus on individual designers' decisions and reflections, offering limited insight into the collaborative and systemic dimensions of professional work. In this paper, we propose a systems-level reframing of design judgment grounded in the coordination and adaptation that sustain progress amid …

Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One
Anita Keshmirian, Razan Baltaji, Babak Hemmatian, Hadi Asghari, Lav R. Varshney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00814 ht…

Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One
Moral judgment is integral to large language model (LLM) alignment and social reasoning. As multi-agent systems gain prominence, it becomes crucial to understand how LLMs function collectively during collaboration, compared to individual agents. In human moral judgment, group deliberation leads to a utilitarian boost: a tendency to endorse norm violations that maximize benefits for the greatest number of people despite harms. We study whether a similar dynamic emerges in multi-agent LLM systems…

An Australian court finds ABC unlawfully terminated journalist Antoinette Lattouf in December 2023 for her social media posts opposing Israel's campaign in Gaza (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

Trump asks appeals court to toss $83M judgment he owes E. Jean Carroll (Erica Orden/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/24/trump-carroll-judgment-appeal-00421059
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p127#a250624p127

Sonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so v…

Scaling Human Judgment in Community Notes with LLMs
Haiwen Li, Soham De, Manon Revel, Andreas Haupt, Brad Miller, Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter, Martin Saveski, Michiel A. Bakker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24118

Scaling Human Judgment in Community Notes with LLMs
This paper argues for a new paradigm for Community Notes in the LLM era: an open ecosystem where both humans and LLMs can write notes, and the decision of which notes are helpful enough to show remains in the hands of humans. This approach can accelerate the delivery of notes, while maintaining trust and legitimacy through Community Notes' foundational principle: A community of diverse human raters collectively serve as the ultimate evaluator and arbiter of what is helpful. Further, the feedbac…

Incorporating episodic memory into quantum models of judgment and decision
Jerome R. Busemeyer, Masanao Ozawa, Emmanuel M. Pothos, Naotsugu Tsuchiya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21521

Incorporating episodic memory into quantum models of judgment and decision
An important challenge for quantum theories of cognition and decision concerns the incorporation of memory for recently made judgments and their effects on later judgments. First, we review a general approach to measurement based on system plus environment representations of states and measurement instruments. These more general measurement models provide ways to incorporate effects of recent judgments on later judgments. Then we compare three different measurement models that are based on thes…

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https://digitalcourage.social/@clemensg/114745468620387901

A Quantum-Inspired Conceptual Model of Collective Subjective Evaluation via Bloch Sphere Dynamics and Like-Polarization
Bumned Soodchomshom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01847

A Quantum-Inspired Conceptual Model of Collective Subjective Evaluation via Bloch Sphere Dynamics and Like-Polarization
We propose a conceptual quantum-inspired model to describe subjective evaluation processes such as taste testing or consumer preference scoring-through the continuous time evolution of cognitive states represented on the Bloch sphere. Unlike conventional quantum cognition models that rely on projective measurements and state collapse, our framework treats evaluation as a weak or generalized measurement, preserving quantum coherence during the act of judgment. The mental state of preference is m…

A Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework for Siting Fusion Energy Facilities: Application and Evaluation of U.S. Coal Power Plants
Muhammad R. Abdussami, Kevin Daley, Gabrielle Hoelzle, Aditi Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22489

A Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework for Siting Fusion Energy Facilities: Application and Evaluation of U.S. Coal Power Plants
This paper proposes a comprehensive methodology for siting fusion energy facilities, integrating expert judgment, geospatial data, and multi-criteria decision making tools to evaluate site suitability systematically. As a case study, we apply this framework to all currently operational coal power plant sites in the United States to examine their potential for hosting future fusion facilities at a time when these coal plants are shut down on reaching their end of life - timelines which are expec…

We're at the top of the Florence Duomo Cupola climb. There's VERY little room between the outer and inner domes. Tall, older American men are banging their heads.
TOAM: How tall did they think people would be?!?
Me, against my better judgment: 5'2".
(How would you respond?)
TOAM: Who were they designing for?!? PYGMIES?!?
Me: Medieval Italians.
TOAM (with disgust): Oh…ITALIANS!!!
We are not sending our best, folks. (Or, can we send them…

Standard Applicability Judgment and Cross-jurisdictional Reasoning: A RAG-based Framework for Medical Device Compliance
Yu Han, Aaron Ceross, Jeroen H. M. Bergmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18511

Standard Applicability Judgment and Cross-jurisdictional Reasoning: A RAG-based Framework for Medical Device Compliance
Identifying the appropriate regulatory standard applicability remains a critical yet understudied challenge in medical device compliance, frequently necessitating expert interpretation of fragmented and heterogeneous documentation across different jurisdictions. To address this challenge, we introduce a modular AI system that leverages a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline to automate standard applicability determination. Given a free-text device description, our system retrieves cand…

Automated Classification of Volcanic Earthquakes Using Transformer Encoders: Insights into Data Quality and Model Interpretability
Y. Suzuki, Y. Yukutake, T. Ohminato, M. Yamasaki, Ahyi Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01260

Automated Classification of Volcanic Earthquakes Using Transformer Encoders: Insights into Data Quality and Model Interpretability
Precisely classifying earthquake types is crucial for elucidating the relationship between volcanic earthquakes and volcanic activity. However, traditional methods rely on subjective human judgment, which requires considerable time and effort. To address this issue, we developed a deep learning model using a transformer encoder for a more objective and efficient classification. Tested on Mount Asama's diverse seismic activity, our model achieved high F1 scores (0.930 for volcano tectonic, 0.931…

Anyone who took this long to split with Trump is untrustable. They have a history of spectacularly poor judgment mixed with moral turpitude and they failed to recognize their own error for about a decade. It’s nice to have a vote change and good to have someone intimate with the MAGA mindset trying to persuade his former co-religionists, but anyone who stuck with Trump past the first quarter of 2017 has a lot of eager evil to atone for.

Not obeying the gospel? Read on ...
https://gleasonator.com/@bible/posts/AvKnGcTGvA507wdwbQ

Bible (@bible@gleasonator.com)
For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 1 Peter 4.17 NASB.Christians su...

Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library mostly written by Claude, showing how AI handles mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment (Max Mitchell)
https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares…

Max Mitchell's Personal Portfolio Website
Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.

InSight-R: A Framework for Risk-informed Human Failure Event Identification and Interface-Induced Risk Assessment Driven by AutoGraph
Xingyu Xiao, Jiejuan Tong, Peng Chen, Jun Sun, Zhe Sui, Jingang Liang, Hongru Zhao, Jun Zhao, Haitao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00066

InSight-R: A Framework for Risk-informed Human Failure Event Identification and Interface-Induced Risk Assessment Driven by AutoGraph
Human reliability remains a critical concern in safety-critical domains such as nuclear power, where operational failures are often linked to human error. While conventional human reliability analysis (HRA) methods have been widely adopted, they rely heavily on expert judgment for identifying human failure events (HFEs) and assigning performance influencing factors (PIFs). This reliance introduces challenges related to reproducibility, subjectivity, and limited integration of interface-level da…

Chinese spies blamed for attempted hack on Czech government network https://therecord.media/czechia-accuses-china-cyber-espionage-apt31

Wisdom of Crowds Through Myopic Self-Confidence Adaptation
Giacomo Como, Fabio Fagnani, Anton Proskurnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18195 https://…

Wisdom of Crowds Through Myopic Self-Confidence Adaptation
The wisdom of crowds is an umbrella term for phenomena suggesting that the collective judgment or decision of a large group can be more accurate than the individual judgments or decisions of the group members. A well-known example illustrating this concept is the competition at a country fair described by Galton, where the median value of the individual guesses about the weight of an ox resulted in an astonishingly accurate estimate of the actual weight. This phenomenon resembles classical resu…

From Judgment to Interference: Early Stopping LLM Harmful Outputs via Streaming Content Monitoring
Yang Li, Qiang Sheng, Yehan Yang, Xueyao Zhang, Juan Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09996

From Judgment to Interference: Early Stopping LLM Harmful Outputs via Streaming Content Monitoring
Though safety alignment has been applied to most large language models (LLMs), LLM service providers generally deploy a subsequent moderation as the external safety guardrail in real-world products. Existing moderators mainly practice a conventional full detection, which determines the harmfulness based on the complete LLM output, causing high service latency. Recent works pay more attention to partial detection where moderators oversee the generation midway and early stop the output if harmful…

A Comprehensive Review of Human Error in Risk-Informed Decision Making: Integrating Human Reliability Assessment, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Performance Models
Xingyu Xiao, Hongxu Zhu, Jingang Liang, Jiejuan Tong, Haitao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01017

A Comprehensive Review of Human Error in Risk-Informed Decision Making: Integrating Human Reliability Assessment, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Performance Models
Human error remains a dominant risk driver in safety-critical sectors such as nuclear power, aviation, and healthcare, where seemingly minor mistakes can cascade into catastrophic outcomes. Although decades of research have produced a rich repertoire of mitigation techniques, persistent limitations: scarce high-quality data, algorithmic opacity, and residual reliance on expert judgment, continue to constrain progress. This review synthesizes recent advances at the intersection of risk-informed …

With his authority damaged by poor judgment, absence of leadership and a sheer lack of understanding of what the Labour party exists for, Starmer will stumble on weakened and directionless, convincing himself that sitting next to Trump and attending Nato and G7 meetings means he has a historic role to play.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/02/labour-government-welfare-bill-democracy-party-election-john-mcdonnell?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

Context, Credibility, and Control: User Reflections on AI Assisted Misinformation Tools
Varun Sangwan, Heidi Makitalo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22940 http…

Context, Credibility, and Control: User Reflections on AI Assisted Misinformation Tools
This paper investigates how collaborative AI systems can enhance user agency in identifying and evaluating misinformation on social media platforms. Traditional methods, such as personal judgment or basic fact-checking, often fall short when faced with emotionally charged or context-deficient content. To address this, we designed and evaluated an interactive interface that integrates collaborative AI features, including real-time explanations, source aggregation, and debate-style interaction. T…

Alex Jones accused of trying to shield assets as Sandy Hook families seek payment on $1B judgment (Dave Collins/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-sandy-hook-shooting-8f4c64aa6ca78f30c5a7472e92865edd
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p32#a250618p32

Sonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so v…

Probabilistic Aggregation and Targeted Embedding Optimization for Collective Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models
Chenchen Yuan, Zheyu Zhang, Shuo Yang, Bardh Prenkaj, Gjergji Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14625

Probabilistic Aggregation and Targeted Embedding Optimization for Collective Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive moral reasoning abilities. Yet they often diverge when confronted with complex, multi-factor moral dilemmas. To address these discrepancies, we propose a framework that synthesizes multiple LLMs' moral judgments into a collectively formulated moral judgment, realigning models that deviate significantly from this consensus. Our aggregation mechanism fuses continuous moral acceptability scores (beyond binary labels) into a collective probability,…

#CNN: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites
President Loud and Foul Mouth will surely rebut, but I'll hold judgment on until a fuller picture develops. Might be months, but I'll wait.
#uspol #Iran #Israel #war #Trump #headlines

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Authoritarian Recursions: How Fiction, History, and AI Reinforce Control in Education, Warfare, and Discourse
This article develops the concept of authoritarian recursion to theorize how artificial intelligence (AI) systems consolidate institutional control across education, military operations, and digital discourse. Rather than treating these domains in isolation, it identifies a shared recursive architecture in which algorithmic systems mediate judgment, obscure accountability, and reshape the conditions of moral and epistemic agency. Grounded in critical discourse analysis and sociotechnical ethi…

One of the most important lessons I've learned in life / continue to learn / managed to forget is the importance of "stopping." It is so easy for life to become overwhelming with all the things I must do. Work, family, friends, volunteering, community, finances, chores, taking care of my health, the list goes on...
"Life is a very simple thing. We make it more complex." - Anonymous
"When we are making our life more complex, that is precisely the time when we are totally incapable of seeing what we are doing. The more complex our lives are, the more we need to be present to them and, surprisingly, this is exactly the time when we are most distracted. When we are distracted, we tend to have poor judgment and make more mistakes . . . usually adding to the confusion . . . and so it goes."
"....We usually respond by trying to become even more controlling and, eventually (or immediately!), this just makes things worse."
"It's time to stop, take stock, take some deep breaths, rest, listen to others, and regroup...We may miss something. We may even miss something we think is important. That's okay. We're more important."
"Taking time to stop may be just what I need to move ahead."
-- Anne Wilson Schaef, Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much, Ballantine Books, 1996, entry for May 6th.
#life #quotes #health #productivity