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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…

“On the Human,” Again

So my 2,500 words on "Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement:  Developing an Argument from Nietzsche" generated some 25,000 words of generally quite interesting and illuminating commentary (moral realists came out in force, as I had hoped!), to which I am, indeed, working on a response–apologies for the delay.  But in the interim, readers might enjoy an interesting short piece in the same forum by my Chicago colleague Robert Pippin asking the important question what it could mean to acknowledge from the first-person point of view the implications of skeptical accounts about agency, like Nietzsche's.

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