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  1. Keefe Bella's avatar

    “Though not outright proof on its face” is where the heuristics from the conversation would inform next steps. Plagiarism of…

  2. AG Tanyi's avatar

    I can’t speak to what LLMs and AI in general might be capable of now or in the future. What…

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  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    “said explicitly that AI will simply accelerate something that is already happening.” – The metaphor people use is “force multiplier”…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    (Sorry, I feel I’m becoming the gadfly in this conversation!) Regarding 1: I learned to take the ‘demographics is destiny’…

  6. sahpa's avatar

    Yeah, I clocked this one right away as almost surely AI. Given the username, I should allow that it *might*…

  7. sahpa's avatar

    Apologies if I’m reading you uncharitably, but it sounds like you are advocating for course failure and later expulsion on…

O’Callaghan from Rice to Wash U/St. Louis

Casey O'Callaghan (philosophy of mind, metaphysics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy and the Program in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology at Washington University, St. Louis.  This will further consolidate Wash U's status as one of the two or three best programs in philosophy of cognitive science in the Anglophone world.

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