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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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

  4. 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…

New Books in December

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:

Dignity, Rank, & Rights by Jeremy Waldron (Oxford University Press, 2012).

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche 4:  Human, All Too Human II and Unpublished Fragments, trans. by Gary Handwerk (Stanford University Press, 2013).

LoveKnowledge:  The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida by Roy Brand (Columbia University Press, 2013).

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