why" or "how"? Thoughts on a new book about how algorithms are related to conscience "Everyone thinks only about how to live, but why - no one wants to think", says Ilya Ilyich Oblomov through the mouth of Oleg Tabakov in the film adaptation of the famous novel. The quote is easily quoted as an axiom from the Russian classics, although in Ivan Goncharov's own text it is absent precisely in this formulation. However, this dichotomy runs through almost all Russian classical literature. That opposition between "why" and "how" formed the basis of the new book "Between Code and Conscience: Artificial Intelligence and Man". Metropolitan Clement of Kluga and Burowsk and Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Alexander Ilinsky offer a joint view of "priest and scientist, theologian and engineer" on "ethics in the age of algorithms". The text, constructed by the partners in the form of questions and answers, is intended, as they hope, to become "a bridge from algorithms to meaning, from calculations to love, from time to eternity." You can say from "How? " - to "Why, for what? " "Who tamed whom" I completely agree that love and faith are the surest way to a happy, joyful and free life. And this is book knowledge; I was convinced and continue to be convinced of this from my life experience. But I'm not at all sure that when going through this path, "Why? " is more important than "how? " "For what? " - It's just completely clear to me: if I love God, life and the people in it, then it's simply much more relaxed and pleasant for me to live. One might even say, for all the inadequacy of such a definition in this context, that it simply benefits me: it makes my soul happy. It is only important to learn and get used to fulfilling this commandment in practice, but here you cannot do without the question - "How? And in general, it often seems to me that the form is more important than the content; if you follow the correct form (for example, the spirit and the letter of the law), then the content will come eventually.

why" or "how"? Thoughts on a new book about how algorithms are related to conscience "Everyone thinks only about how to live, but why - no one wants to think", says Ilya Ilyich Oblomov through the mouth of Oleg Tabakov in the film adaptation of the famous novel. The quote is easily quoted as an axiom from the Russian classics, although in Ivan Goncharov's own text it is absent precisely in this formulation. However, this dichotomy runs through almost all Russian classical literature. That opposition between "why" and "how" formed the basis of the new book "Between Code and Conscience: Artificial Intelligence and Man". Metropolitan Clement of Kluga and Burowsk and Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Alexander Ilinsky offer a joint view of "priest and scientist, theologian and engineer" on "ethics in the age of algorithms". The text, constructed by the partners in the form of questions and answers, is intended, as they hope, to become "a bridge from algorithms to meaning, from calculations to love, from time to eternity." You can say from "How? " - to "Why, for what? " "Who tamed whom" I completely agree that love and faith are the surest way to a happy, joyful and free life. And this is book knowledge; I was convinced and continue to be convinced of this from my life experience. But I'm not at all sure that when going through this path, "Why? " is more important than "how? " "For what? " - It's just completely clear to me: if I love God, life and the people in it, then it's simply much more relaxed and pleasant for me to live. One might even say, for all the inadequacy of such a definition in this context, that it simply benefits me: it makes my soul happy. It is only important to learn and get used to fulfilling this commandment in practice, but here you cannot do without the question - "How? And in general, it often seems to me that the form is more important than the content; if you follow the correct form (for example, the spirit and the letter of the law), then the content will come eventually.