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I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that
For what it’s worth, I agree. I have, with some trepidation, given it a bunch of my papers and asked…
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Perhaps a useful distinction here is between replacing philosophers and changing the conditions under which philosophical work gets done. LLMs…
Conditional on the hypothesis that journal editors sometimes desk reject high-quality papers written and commended by world experts on a…
Some users seem to have conflicting impressions about the (absolute level of) abilities of current iterations of the LLMs. But…
Let us remember
Let us remember
The living
Overlooked as we amass
The dead
And assign them a value
Richer than dollars
Shapelier than gravestones
More memorable than
Whatever it is
We drop off to sleep
Forgetting
6/30-7/4/10
Guilt
How painful
Not to have suffered
Left in comfort
To seethe with resentment
Watching the bodies
Of those oh so fortunate
Sufferers
Float by
7/4/10
Copyright 2010 by Maurice Leiter
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