Capoferro, AI, and the missing zero, with Dr Marc Heimann

About this episode

Dr. Marc Heimann discusses the intersection of AI, ethics, and historical martial arts.

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to: https://swordschool.shop/blogs/podcast/episode-217-capoferro-ai-and-the-missing-zero-with-dr-marc-heimann To support the show, come join the Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Dr Marc Heimann is a Philosopher of Technology in Hamburg whose work formalizes the intersection of continental logic and the operational mechanics of large language models. (It’ll all become clear in the episode.) We discuss the ethical implications of AI in enhancing human capabilities versus diminishing them, particularly for students. We also delve into the relationship between Freudian language theory and modern AI. Despite its current limitations, there’s also a very interesting potential for AI use in historical martial arts research, where we could use it to provide new insights without modern biases. Don't worry, there'll be plenty of swordy stuff mixed in with the AI! Marc is also a practicing historical martial artist, and we connected over Capoferro’s theory of tempo. Books and papers mentioned in the episode: The History of Zero: The Nothing That Is (Kaplan, 1999). Kaplan, Robert. 1999. The Nothing That Is: A Natural…

People in this episode

Host: theswordguy

Guest: Dr Marc Heimann

Topics covered

• AI ethics
• historical martial arts
• Capoferro
• language theory
• technology philosophy

Keywords

• AI
• Capoferro
• historical martial arts
• ethics
• language theory
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The History of Zero: The Nothing That Is, Die Impetustheorie Der Scholastik

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