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    Sagar’s claim that LLMs pose an “existential threat” to universities rests on a set of conflations that do not survive…

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    Generative AI has the potential to do catastrophic harm to higher education. This is because learning is a biological process…

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    When the problem of AI-based papers started a few years ago, I immediately switched to in-class essay exams and told…

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    In terms of pedagogy, I agree with Professor Sagar. In philosophy courses, at least, the exercise is the point; I…

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    The central claim is that LLMs (or AI more generally, I suppose) is an existential threat to universities. This gets…

Annals of the One-Party State, Part 302 (Leiter)

Here is the new Democratic majority leader in the House of Representatives:

Iran with nuclear weapons is unacceptable, new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told The Jerusalem Post hours after entering the party leadership position.

The Maryland Democrat said the view is shared by his party,
rejecting assertions that the Democrats would be weaker than the
Republicans on Iran.

He also said that the use of force against Teheran remained an option.

So much for the November elections.  The position of the new Democratic "leadership" is equally spineless (or is it simply craven?) on Iraq.

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