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    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

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    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

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    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

Happiness = S+U+V (Edmundson)

Bill Edmundson

"All we want in this world is crazy beautiful happiness," said Delores del Rio, expounding her version of eudaemonism, in Flying Down to Rio.  For a guy who seems not to have heard of Epicurus, John Lanchester, writing in The New Yorker (Feb. 27) does a nice job reviewing two recent books: Jonathan Haidt (Psychology, Virginia), The Happiness Hypothesis, and Darrin McMahon (History, Florida State), Happiness: A History.  Enjoy!

Really, really wanna be happy?  George Will, in "Smile If (and Only If) You’re Conservative" advises being right wing–just not "professionally" right wing, which can make you surlier than a bumper sticker on a Volvo.

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