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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…
Looking at some of the AI-amplified cranks on philpeople, it is hard to agree with the assessment of this article.…
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…
Epistemologists are not impressed!
Brad DeLong, an economist at Berkeley, makes what I suspect will become a typical mistake in interpreting the results. According to the NRC, there is a 90% chance that the "true rank" of Berkeley Economics is between 4 and 8.
Every school in the nation is "among the nation's best" according to their press releases, but given the NRC's failure to actually rank the programs in an intelligible way, this seems a defensible gloss!
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