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intentional tech appears in 12 chunks across 7 episodes, from 2025-05-12 to 2025-08-04.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 6/23/25 (2025-06-23), with 3 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with llms, training data, and sycosocial relationship, while by chunk count it sits between excellent piece and pocket universe.
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Range2025-05-12 to 2025-08-04Mean1.7 per episodePeak3 on 2025-06-23
Observations
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Intentional tech is not about figuring out some global alignment for everyone's aspirations.
That would be as impossible as coming up with a single ranking function f...
... from dominating the whole system."
Their four principles in their paper map to intentional tech:
1) contextual grounding (know your situation),
2) community customization (different groups need different things)
3) continual adaptation (coactive...
...stead of racing to build the one AI to rule them all[hc], we should be building intentional technology—systems genuinely aligned with human agency and aspirations rather than corporate KPIs.
For intentional tech, you can get far with a short essay that distills your values.
Even a first draft of an LLM distilled off of your broader context can be useful.
Diff...
Intentional tech isn't about imposing what anyone should want.
It's about helping each person live aligned with their own intentions.
Their agency and aspirations.
What's the solarpunk aesthetic for Intentional Tech?
Warm, cozy, human, prosocial, meaningful, optimistic.
Scrapbooking with your family at a sundrenched table.
...around people.
That implies it's not about companies' interest.
Similar vibe as Intentional Tech: aligned with your intentions.
Contrasts with Big Tech.
Echoes of Personal Computers from the 90's and the revolution those were.
...pe, something to strive for, together.[mo]
An optimistic vision for the future: intentional tech.
Tech aligned with our intentions, that helps us flourish individually and together.
I want Intentional Tech.
Technology that is perfectly aligned with my intentions.
Not optimizing for anyone else, (especially a corporation), but for me.
Not necessarily wha...