Tech Philosophy Meetup #3
Translated from Korean
What do we want to do?
- We want to gather the noise of technology piling up without context.
- Creating an audience, not believers.
- Let's make it feel like entering a new world.
- Humans are semantic engines; our job is to find their filters.
- Insights, fruits aren't necessary. We want to give the space to think.
What kind of space/community do we want to create?
- Providing psychological safety.
- It's okay not to speak coherently. It's okay to go off on tangents. Emergence and alchemy can happen within stories that go off on wild tangents.
- A space where it's okay to be wrong.
- Listening, we must listen well. What if we said, "We came here to listen"?
What form should our group take for writing tech philosophy essays together?
- Let's pose questions and each write our own piece.
- But shouldn't we have a shared context? Whether it's text, film, or video.
- Couldn't we each write on the topics and questions we want under a larger context?
- Then what context could we start with? What should we start with to achieve the form we desire?
- Shouldn't there at least be a theoretical framework? This theory doesn't need to be the words of a famous philosopher, but rather each person's worldview, sensibility, lens, and perspective on the world.
- Can people untrained in philosophy manage this on their own? And can this truly begin with just one text? Should we be the ones providing that training?
A Conclusion Without Conclusion
- No conclusion has been reached, and we're still in the process of misdelivery. Let's move forward anyway. First, under the vast theme of "The Point Where Technology and I Meet," each of us should write a technology philosophy essay—about one and a half pages in 11-point font on Google Docs! Deadline: two weeks!