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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…

Two Philosophers Elected to Royal Society of Canada

Adam Morton, who holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta, has been elected as a regular Fellow, and Nicholas Rescher (Pittsburgh) has been elected as a Foreign Fellow.  Details here and here.  Curiously, Professor Rescher has not been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, though a number of his former students have been. 

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