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  1. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

  2. Claudio's avatar

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

  3. Charles Pigden's avatar

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

  4. Mark's avatar

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

  5. A in the UK's avatar
  6. Jonathan Turner's avatar

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

  7. Craig Duncan's avatar

Congressman Westmoreland and the Three Commandments? (Nadelhoffer)

As someone who grew up in Georgia, I simply can’t pass up on the opportunity to applaud the efforts of Congressman Lynn Westmoreland–the co-sponsor of a bill which would have required that the Ten Commandments be displayed in both the House  and the Senate lest we further destroy the moral fabric of this great land–to make the commandments easier to remember by reducing them in number from ten to three! Stephen Colbert has outdone himself once again.  The look on Westmoreland’s face when he is asked by Colbert to list the ten commandments is truly priceless. Since I laughed until my sides hurt when I first saw this interview (you may have to scroll down a bit), I thought I would spread the schadenfreude.

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