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    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…

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    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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    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

Cambridge Observation

In addition to having a stimulating visit to the Moral Sciences Club at Cambridge University yesterday (with warm thanks to my hosts, Ben Colburn and Hallvard Lillehammer, and to all the philosophers and students who turned out for the talk–nothing like a talk on Nietzsche to produce a standing-room only crowd!), I also had the opportunity to browse one of my favorite bookstores, the Cambridge University Press bookshop near St. Mary’s Street.  Besides carrying copies of every CUP book in print, the store places up front the books most recently published (on the shelf were those published on October 6 and October 20), which gives one a sense of the rich array of scholarly materials CUP produces every couple of weeks.  There were also many new philosophy items just in that two week period, including Iain Thomson’s new book on Heidegger, Elijah Millgram’s collection of papers on practical reason and cognate topics, and the second edition of Gary Gutting’s Cambridge Companion to Foucault.  (Second editions of other Cambridge Companions are also in the works.)  Spotted elsewhere on the shelves was also a new CUP edition of some of Nietzsche’s last works (Twilight, The Antichrist, etc.) in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Series (the same series as Clark’s and my edition of Daybreak), this one edited by Aaron Ridley and translated by Judith Norman, who had done a nice job on Beyond Good and Evil in the same series (though the introduction by Rolf-Peter Horstmann to that volume was weak).  If you’re in Cambridge, you should pay a visit.

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