Tag: Philosophy of Technology
Pages tagged with philosophy of technology.
- Bringing Web 3.0 and DAO into Democratic Class: A Study of Pedagogy in Higher Education
Blockchain technology introduces a paradigm shift into higher education, presenting opportunities for innovative transformations in human organization and democratic operations. Education-based Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) on Web 3.0 are anticipated to instigate change across the spectrum, from classroom pedagogy to broader educational systems. Our research concentrates on the micro-level exploration of the merger between the decentralization principles of educational DAOs and traditional democratic classrooms. In the course of our experimental study, we analyze an experimental postgraduate course that uses a governing token to stimulate decision-making processes, empowering students with a participatory role that mirrors DAO operations. The implementation of popular DAO tools is discussed with the goal of crafting a classroom environment reflecting the decentralized decision-making structures intrinsic to DAOs. While we underscore the potential of decentralized teaching methodologies to enhance democratic education, we particularly focus on students as the primary facilitators of collective decision-making. According to our investigation, students showed a greater understanding and positivity towards decentralization than expected, suggesting that a suitable environment could boost positive behavior in class. Furthermore, in an architecturally decentralized class, a properly operational tokenomics could enhance classroom liberty, particularly for elite students, who might exert significant influence due to tokenomics and reward mechanisms.
- Cyberpunk and Cypherpunk: A Philosophical Analysis Comparing Two Views of the Metaverse
As ancestors of the idea of the metaverse - Cyberpunks and Cypherpunks - propose two distinct attitudes towards Cyberspace, and this difference also infuses their attitudes towards the metaverse. These two attitudes will powerfully influence the developmental direction of the metaverse and how it will be recognized and accepted by society. Given that the visual space is an artificial reality created by technology, they not only illustrate two different ideas regarding "realities other than the physical one of human society", but also illustrate two different ideas regarding technology itself. The Cyberpunk view of the metaverse could be seen as techno-pessimistic or Luddism. Cypherpunk's metaverse view, on the other hand, is "technological transformationism", which carries multi-possibilities of living styles of human being, and it almost incompatible with Luddism.
- Limits of AI Moral Enhancement
Artificial intelligence moral enhancement is a sub-topic subordinate to the "human moral enhancement" trend. It is hoped that human moral cognition can be improved through the "artificial moral advisor (AMA)", which is capable of "objective" moral representation and strong information acquisition. However, since AMA cannot meet the "ideal observer (IO)" standard after all, it will inevitably fall into the embarrassment of expertism. In addition, researchers who resort to the construction of "moral machines" also presuppose an IO perspective by constructing learning algorithmic frameworks for automatic ethical classification and decision making. Through the experimental study of Guarini's Moral Case Classifier (MCC), we have found that the hypothetical function without pre-classification could not be fitted, which means that the generalist AMA that fits the IO cannot be built. In view of this, we propose another different "AI moral enhancement" scheme - an "AMA as The Other", and hope that the artificial general intelligence (AGI) will become the basis for its realization.
- The War of Autonomous Driving: Computer Vision and LiDAR
This article analyzes the technical and conceptual debate between computer vision and LiDAR in the development of autonomous driving systems. It argues that the disagreement is not merely about engineering preference, but about competing assumptions concerning perception, safety, and the future trajectory of intelligent mobility.