Cookwala

Cookwala / For

For philosophers, ethicists, historians and futurists

When a machine cooks a grandmother's recipe, who owns the knowledge? What does dignity mean in automated care? What may a household's robot know, and who else may know it? Cookwala has made choices about these questions in code; the essays say what they were and invite disagreement.

Why it matters to you

The positions are running rules, not opinions: a facet registry that says which 45 facts about a home never leave it; a never-delegable class of operations; dish identity a planner must respect; consent on every execution log; a labour or consumer seat in governance, with a seat for the people served still an open proposal. Each is defended in an essay and open to an RFC, which is a philosophical argument with a schema.

Ways in, light to deep

  1. Read the essays. Who inherits a recipe; dignity in automated care; what a household robot may know; refusal as a virtue; like bees.
  2. Write a response. A pull request to the essays folder; disagreement is the point.
  3. Propose a rule. An RFC that changes a default: the privacy class of a facet, the never-delegable list, the identity rules.
  4. Sit on the ethics review. Of the household context profile, when it is convened.

First success, under 15 minutes

Read the essay on household data and the facet registry's travel rules (vocab/facets.json); find one facet whose default you would change, and say why in an issue.

The path after that

  1. Essay → public comment → RFC → changed default

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