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If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…
Maybe people are more interested in engaging with human interlocutors than with machine ones, no matter what the argument.
Essays as coursework has never been just about engaging the argument itself. Authorship matters because it matters that the argument…
If anything, this exchange illustrates the problem: judgments are being made on stylistic impressions (“this sounds like AI”) rather than…
The existential threat is not to higher-ed as such but a particular (and now common) higher-ed business model: the one…
I think Paul is absolutely right. For the humanities it is an existential crisis, not just some minor issue that…
Is the joke here that your comment is very obviously written by AI?
…have long been familiar in the U.S., but they're now operating in Israel too. One target of these crypto-fascists is the Philosophy Department at Tel-Aviv University (note, in particular, the smear job on Anat Matar, who is author of a book on Dummett and co-author of the entry on Wittgenstein in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
(Thanks to Alon Harel for the pointer.)
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