December 2004
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The mainstreaming of torture
The degeneration of American political life continues: Evidence gained by torture can be used by the U.S. military in deciding whether to imprison a foreigner indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an enemy combatant, the government says. Statements produced under torture have been inadmissible in U.S. courts for about 70 years. But the U.S. military…
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Brief Hiatus
I’m off to give a faculty workshop at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles tomorrow (Thursday) (jointly sponsored by Loyola’s new Center for Interdisciplinary and Comparative Jurisprudence). Don’t expect much new until the weekend.
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Jeff McMahan’s “Moral Case Against the Iraq War”…
…has been reposted here. Apparently in the site move to the new URL, the original document was lost, as a reader pointed out to me. I’ve now restored it.
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Wash U Law Dean Seligman to Become President of Rochester
Joel Seligman, Dean of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis (and before that Dean at the University of Arizona College of Law), will become the next President of the University of Rochester. Below is the announcement forwarded to me from someone at Wash U: To: The Law School Community From: Joel Seligman Date:…
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The Military Resorts to Spam
The military is now so short of new recruits, that they have resorted to e-mail and phone spam, some of which is directed at University of Texas School of Law students. When the students complain, the military recruiters threaten physical harm and become verbally abusive. The pathetic details are here. (Thanks to Doug Barnes for…
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More on the Kluge Prize
Regarding the question of possible political (or other) bias in choices for the Kluge Prize, Jonathan Wolff (Philosophy, UCL) notes, Looking at the blurb on Pelikan it seems pretty clear what the three winners have in common: while not in religion departments, they are people who take (Christian) religion very seriously. And reader Matthew King,…
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Start of the Month Blog Stats
According to Typepad, late last night, here are what the monthly stats for November looked like: Total number of hits: 119322 Average per day: 3314.50 Today: 13972 In the last hour: 254 This week: 21744 As I’ve noted, Typepad’s "today" stats appear to be a count of page views, not unique hits, but the average…
I don’t see any connection between the knowing how/that issue and LLM opacity. Can you elaborate?