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    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

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    I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…

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    If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…

Strawson on Free Will in the NY Times Blog

Here.  It's an abbreviated version of the argument from his well-known paper "The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility," Philosophical Studies (1994).  There's a reasonably interesting discussion by philosophers here.  The comments at the Times site are, as usual, mostly hopeless, though my experience is that the Dunning-Kruger effect rules when it comes to who chooses to comment anonymously on web sites, so there is reason to hope that intelligent items like Galen's are more constructively received by the silent part of the public.

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