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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  2. Mark's avatar

    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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Selecting for Female Orgasm

Nice article here on an important new book by philosopher of science Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana) debunking adaptionist accounts of female sexuality that overreach the evidence, sometimes wildly.

It’s an odd situation in America today:  on one side, we have hordes of ignorant yahoos–driven by various forms of delusion and without any regard for reason or evidence–denying the foundation of modern biology, the theory of evolution by natural selection; on the other side, we have various social scientists, some ill-informed law professors, and a handful of biologists–driven by various forms of intellectual imperialism and with only slightly more regard for reason and evidence–advancing selectionist ("Darwinian") explanations for a wide range of human behaviors, even though these explanations systematically fail to meet the evidential standards well-established in the biological sciences. 

Of course, there can be little doubt as to who is more dangerous.

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