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This may seem silly for a thermometer producing a one-dimensional stream of numbers whose meaning is based on stable physics models, but just peek into say climate data debates around temperature records and you’ll realize how fraught this is... personhood is a way to model that.
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In Culture novels, people routinely save entire states of themselves, including memories, that can be used to resurrect them in cloned bodies or as AIs. Im skeptical of “uploading” as a sentience/consciousness preserving process, but the data-agency take on that is a weaker claim
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The question then is: who owns data-persons created from your data? You the source of the data? The owners of the instrumentation IP? The owners of the copyright on the data model used to cast physical signals like a current valuation into data?
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I think the only solution is: the data owns itself. Just like biological offspring do. Anything else leads to an unholy mess of conflicts of interest, bad faith, etc.
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Like children, data persons need parenting until they get “grow up.” But the principle of fostering ontogenic development into full personhood should be the true north. Ideas like “researchers should open-source data and code used to write peer-reviewed papers” are soft versions.
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I’m not a data-rights absolutist, and am willing to trade “my” data for services, but the farther data is along ontogenic path to personhood, the more wary I am of it being locked up. Not “information wants to be free” but “data shouldn’t be in school/jail without good reason”
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Hey @whoop I’m enjoying your product a lot, but how do I get my data downloaded in some useful format like csv or json or via api/zapier/ifttt? There’s no documentation that I can find or plans/announcements. It’s almost 2021! Weird to see a consumer health data walled garden.
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