Cookwala / Ideas and essays
Positions we took in code, written out so you can disagree
When a machine cooks a grandmother's dish, whose knowledge is it? What does dignity mean in automated care? What may a household's robot know, and who else may know it? Cookwala made choices about these questions in schemas and vocabularies. These essays say what they were. Responses are welcome as pull requests; disagreements that change a default go through an RFC.
Essays
Who inherits a recipe?
Credit that travels, dish identity a machine must respect, the cook's language first class, learning only with consent. And three objections we take seriously.
Read →Dignity in automated care
The person chooses; the machine checks. Texture and serving are part of the recipe. Presence is a safety rule, not a social policy. No score of a person, ever.
Read →What a household robot may know
The full picture stays home; only constraints travel. Income never inferred; children and absences secret; inferred facts never drive safety.
Read →Refusal as a virtue
Why the most important thing a cooking machine can do is decline, and what it costs.
Read →Like bees
Marks not orders, evaporation, verifying the source not the messenger, immunity; and two things nature cannot teach: fairness and reserves.
Read →Open questions we have not answered
- How a machine should cook for a person who cannot be its last sensor: today the ladder refuses sautéing, searing, frying and reducing when no one can watch, which refuses the people the care essay is written for.
- Whether a recipe can be owned at all.
- Whether a robot should ever cook alone in a home with children.
- Whether aggregated demand signals are a public good or a market.
- What a kitchen without a cook does to a household's sense of itself.
- Whether being fed by a machine, however well, is a loss that should be named rather than designed around.
Where the arguments became rules
The facet registry's travel rules (Household Context), the never-delegable operation class (whitepaper, section 6), dish identity in the recipe format, consent on execution logs (Core section 8), the labour-or-consumer seat in governance (a seat for the people served is proposed). Your page: options, first success, flow