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Chat GPT generated comment on this discussion. I believe in a detente with AI This is a particularly interesting discussion…
References: https://explainx.ai/blog/china-robot-lightning-100m-usain-bolt-record-august-2026 https://theawesomer.com/robots-humans-perform-martial-arts/796716/ https://www.aiplusinfo.com/blog/robot-learns-badminton-via-ai-simulation/
To be completely explicit: this refutes the statement that “The field, he argued, had succeeded precisely where knowing-that applied: formal…
Here’s one such argument. AI-enabled robots have broken the world 100-m sprint record, can do world-class martial arts, and play…
Thank you for linking to this. Ironically, Dreyfuss is already on my TBR stack, thanks to a suggestion from Google…
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Rachel Moran, who joined the UC Irvine faculty from UC Berkeley in 2008 is returning to Northern California. At the time of her move, Brian reported that from Berkeley's point of view, she was taking a leave. She will have had a two year stay at Irvine. Although she is departing, UC Irvine is holding an offer open for Professor Moran.
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Mark, in my view, the article is stronger historically than philosophically precisely because it conflates three distinct questions: whether a…