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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  2. 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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  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  5. 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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What do philosophers believe?

Some law professors and students may enjoy the results of a survey of the philosophical opinions of nearly 900 faculty at leading PhD programs throughout the Anglophone world.  There were a lot of questions about fairly technical philosophical debates, but many of the results will be easily intelligible to those outside the field:  e.g., about three-quarters of philosophers are atheists, while less than 15% believe in God; but a solid majority of philosophers believe in objective moral truths, while only about a quarter hold the correct view!

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