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  1. Keefe Bella's avatar

    “Though not outright proof on its face” is where the heuristics from the conversation would inform next steps. Plagiarism of…

  2. AG Tanyi's avatar

    I can’t speak to what LLMs and AI in general might be capable of now or in the future. What…

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    “said explicitly that AI will simply accelerate something that is already happening.” – The metaphor people use is “force multiplier”…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    (Sorry, I feel I’m becoming the gadfly in this conversation!) Regarding 1: I learned to take the ‘demographics is destiny’…

  6. sahpa's avatar

    Yeah, I clocked this one right away as almost surely AI. Given the username, I should allow that it *might*…

  7. sahpa's avatar

    Apologies if I’m reading you uncharitably, but it sounds like you are advocating for course failure and later expulsion on…

“The less they know, the less they know it” post of the week is…

here, where the tediously reactionary Professor Reynolds is handed the rope and then hangs himself with it (i.e., posts it). (The last "paragraph" of the rope [about married men] is irrelevant, by then Professor Reynolds is long gone.) (What a misfortune, and injustice, for the University of Tennessee College of Law that Reynolds should now be their best-known faculty member.)

UPDATE: And for more on the moral depravity of Professor Reynolds, visit here and scroll down to October 24.

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