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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  3. 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…

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    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

Thomas Nagel’s new book “Mind and Cosmos”

Michael Weisberg (Penn) and I review it for The Nation.  As some may know, Nagel has made some unfortunate and confused interventions into the debates about intelligent design creationism.  This book is related, alas.  Scholars interested in the constitutional issues about the teaching of evolution and creationism may, in particular, find this review of interest.

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