Mstyslav Kazakov is a Ukrainian philosopher based in Kyiv, working as a lecturer at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and is an alumnus of The New Centre’s Transdisciplinary Studies Program. His research interests encompass metaphysics of temporality and philosophy of time (both within the context of the ‘speculative turn’ and aside from it), philosophy of technology, ethics of Artificial Intelligence, philosophy of science and epistemology.
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Notes on Hypervision
Theory-fiction is a genre of thought in the process of making and becoming. And, as any genre of that kind on such a stage, what it needs for thriving is methodology: not from the side of ‘theory’ — for there are a lot of possible ways of theoretical inquiry present at hand today (which is,… Read More »
Telos at the End: A Meditation on Dysteleological Superintelligence
I proceed from an actual fact. For all the scenarios of existential risk from Artificial Intelligence/Superintelligence, there’s always been the same thing. There’s always been this aspect, put tacitly or implicitly, either merely enlisted, or considered to be decisive. And what is it? It is the presupposed teleology. Varying in movements and outcomes, all AI-concerned… Read More »