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  1. Mark's avatar

    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…

  4. sahpa's avatar

    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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  7. Mark Robert Taylor's avatar

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

The Pointlessness of Arguing with Most Denizens of the Blogosphere

Philosopher John Protevi recounts his own exhausting experience with a random know-nothing.  I empathize!  "The less they know, the less they know it."  Or in the immortal words of Ezra Pound:  "you can’t talk to the ignorant about lies, since they have no criteria."

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