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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

What’s “The Point”?

It's actually a new journal of ideas put together by some PhD students in the Committee on Social Thought here at the University of Chicago.  They have some selected content on-line.  I particularly enjoyed in the print version the entertaining piece on the "creation museum" in Kentucky by Tom Stern (UCL), which drew some nice connections with Nietzsche's discussion of the problem of suffering in the Genealogy (though went off the rails at the end in comparing scientists to priests!).  

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