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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 game is up”

I'm afraid the last line of my earlier post on Party Line Continentals was a bit opaque (or at least some readers have asked about it):  when I said "the game is up" I only meant that I wanted to expose in a very public way the charade according to which some philosophers are "pure Continentals," when in fact they simply represent one particular philosophical sect deriving from Heidegger which wants to insulate itself from ordinary philosophical scrutiny by treating everyone else working on post-Kantian European philosophers as "the other." 

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