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Istvan Zoltan Zardai
I'm currently a visiting researcher at Keio University, Tokyo and work as an adjunct lecturer at Sophia University, Tokyo and occasionally also at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Besides, I'm teaching online: I tutor US-based university students in Humanities, Social Sciences and Business subjects, and teach English and Philosophy to Japanese mature learners and children. My research interests encompass Philosophy (Moral Philosophy/Ethics, Metaphysics, Political Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Aristotle), International Relations (esp. EU, East- and Central-Europe, and East- and Southeast Asia), and Literature (Hungarian, British and American, German, and Japanese literature).
Supervisors: Prof. Constantine Sandis, Dr. Chon Tejedor, and Prof. Wolfgang Ertl
Address: Room 106, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Supervisors: Prof. Constantine Sandis, Dr. Chon Tejedor, and Prof. Wolfgang Ertl
Address: Room 106, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo
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For more information on the project and the event visit
https://www.notesfromabiscuittin.com/project/tokyo/
https://www.notesfromabiscuittin.com/project/tokyo/
philosophy of action. My talk will provide a brief overview of the
main positions in the literature and point out some similarities among
the presuppositions that they endorse. I will then argue that most
such can be called monist views of actions on the basis of their
approach. Such views employ an oversimplifying dichotomy of causing
and caused event, are over reliant on the notion of casuation, and
some of them even leave agents entirely out of the view. I propose
that instead we employ a different approach, which I call pluralism
about actions. Pluralism endorses in its ontology both events and
processes and treats actions as agents' exercising their agential
capacities.
LLMs enable low-cost, high-reward dishonesty. Students attempt to submit these products as their own texts. Some in education propose to use LLMs to allow students to generate text and then revise it. This is feasible in groups small enough to ensure that students can be monitored
continuously and substantially rewrite the texts while reflecting on the editing process. However, such highlighting of what is important about rewriting tasks reveals that LLMs do not add value to such activities.
The recommended policy is to restrict and regulate LLMs. This protects jobs; it ensures that students have to develop skills that enhance their agency and their character development; and alleviates the problem of massive scale intellectual property misuse.
Resistance to AI is urgent: no company promoting it will back down from doing so, no matter the risks of their products. This is a case of a game where one agent will never cooperate, and both agents endorse incompatible value sets. Consequently, no group potentially adversely
affected should have qualms about intense opposition and has a duty to lobby for regulation and conditional supervised rollout of LLMs.
Even if creating such agents would be possible, doing so would be useless for two reasons. First, it would be immoral to create beings with capacities to feel, reflect and empathise for the sole purpose of sending them to war. Second, their performance would be plagued by similar issues as human combatants’, e.g. fatigue, stress, fear, and panic. In light of this, it is useless to create Autonomous Agents for the purpose of killing in wars.
http://philcul.net/?page_id=545
For more information on the project and the event visit
https://www.notesfromabiscuittin.com/project/tokyo/
https://www.notesfromabiscuittin.com/project/tokyo/
philosophy of action. My talk will provide a brief overview of the
main positions in the literature and point out some similarities among
the presuppositions that they endorse. I will then argue that most
such can be called monist views of actions on the basis of their
approach. Such views employ an oversimplifying dichotomy of causing
and caused event, are over reliant on the notion of casuation, and
some of them even leave agents entirely out of the view. I propose
that instead we employ a different approach, which I call pluralism
about actions. Pluralism endorses in its ontology both events and
processes and treats actions as agents' exercising their agential
capacities.
LLMs enable low-cost, high-reward dishonesty. Students attempt to submit these products as their own texts. Some in education propose to use LLMs to allow students to generate text and then revise it. This is feasible in groups small enough to ensure that students can be monitored
continuously and substantially rewrite the texts while reflecting on the editing process. However, such highlighting of what is important about rewriting tasks reveals that LLMs do not add value to such activities.
The recommended policy is to restrict and regulate LLMs. This protects jobs; it ensures that students have to develop skills that enhance their agency and their character development; and alleviates the problem of massive scale intellectual property misuse.
Resistance to AI is urgent: no company promoting it will back down from doing so, no matter the risks of their products. This is a case of a game where one agent will never cooperate, and both agents endorse incompatible value sets. Consequently, no group potentially adversely
affected should have qualms about intense opposition and has a duty to lobby for regulation and conditional supervised rollout of LLMs.
Even if creating such agents would be possible, doing so would be useless for two reasons. First, it would be immoral to create beings with capacities to feel, reflect and empathise for the sole purpose of sending them to war. Second, their performance would be plagued by similar issues as human combatants’, e.g. fatigue, stress, fear, and panic. In light of this, it is useless to create Autonomous Agents for the purpose of killing in wars.
http://philcul.net/?page_id=545
The slides are based on the 45 mini-interviews I made with leading people working on action-theory. I re-read all answer, categorised the replies and counted mentions of fields, thinkers, topics. I also took into account what people mentioned as likely or preferred directions for the development of the field.
You can find the mini-interviews on this site
https://www.philosophyofaction.com/
Yasuhiro and Istvan worked together as part of The Notes from a Biscuit Tin project, which commemorates the life and work of Midgley.
You can find more information about the project and recordings of the events at the project website: https://www.notesfromabiscuittin.com/project/tokyo/