Philosophers of science and economics generally take a dimmer view of economics (epecially macroeconomics) than the practitioners, including those in law schools. The Krugman v. Cochrane dispute about the failure of "Chicago School" macroeconomics in the current financial crisis is an interesting case study of the problems afflicting macroeconomics. Alexander Rosenberg, a leading philosopher of economics at Duke, comments here on some of the issues.
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The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…