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I am very pleased to have stumbled upon this site. I am Andrew & Lynne’s nephew, Peter. My mother was…
Modern Aesthetics and Democratic Life: The Struggle for Aesthetic Freedom by Jörg Schaub (permanently open-access) Description In this innovative open-access…
A couple of broader comments, having had a little time to reflect: 1) I agree that the “pile of truths”…
And the second paragraph?
I wonder if LLMs training on your work increases the chances of your work being falsely flagged by AI-detectors as…
These are the sort of systems that are currently used for “teaching” LLMs math and coding, as I understand it.…
The Chronicle reports on a panel of med school deans speaking out against US News rankings. If nothing else, we learn that the folks at US News are able to "sleep reasonably well at night" because they tell readers not to "pay too much attention to these rankings" and they believe prospective med school students are using the rankings "responsibly."
Whatever that means.
Here are my thoughts: https://www.natemeyvis.com/ai-skepticism-in-philosophy/ In brief: 1. I’m sympathetic to Kaufman’s view of philosophical value. 2. But generative AI…