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  1. Keith Douglas's avatar

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

  2. 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…

  6. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

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

  7. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

Robert Paul Wolff’s review of Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind” (1987)

This is very clever and amusing.  I remember buying the book the week it came out, because it had a lot in it about Nietzsche, and I knew Bloom was a leading Straussian, so I wanted to get a better sense of that reading.  It is worth remembering that Bloom conceived the book as a bit of scholarship, not a popular work, and yet the scholarship, including about Nietzsche was so piss poor, it defied belief.  Anyway, Wolff's review is very funny.

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