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  1. Keith Douglas's avatar

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

  2. 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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    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

  6. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

  7. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

Six Philosophers Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The complete listings are here.  Five philosophers were elected in the Philosophy section:  J. Michael Dunn (Indiana, emeritus); Don Garrett (NYU); Grigori Mints (Stanford); Christopher Peacocke (Columbia); and Scott Soames (Southern California).  In addition, Seana Shiffrin (UCLA) was elected in the Law section.

UPDATE:  Turns out I missed one:  philosopher John Jenkins, who is President of the University of Notre Dame, was also elected in the Educational Administration section.

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