I recently attended Tom’s closing workshop on his Philosophy of statistical learning theory project. It was a great workshop and I learned a great deal from the talks. I provide a streamlined version of notes I took, for all those who were interested but couldn’t attend. The abstracts of the talks can be found here: https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/events/workshops/container/ml_2023/index.html#schuster.… Continue reading ML epistemology workshop – Day 1
Category: ethics
What is anticipatory ethics about?
It was at ESDiT22 where I first encountered the term anticipatory ethics. This got my hopes up that there might be a new approach to the problem of unintended consequences in philosophy of technology. The problem of unintended consequences:The most troubling ethical problems in technology arise from unintended consequences. Unintended consequences can be known in advance, but most… Continue reading What is anticipatory ethics about?