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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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    “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…

New Books in December

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

Hume by Don Garrett (Routledge, 2015) [in the Routledge Philosophers series]

True Paradox:  How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World by David Skeel (InterVarsity Press, 2014).

Dewey by Steven Fesmire (Routledge, 2015) [in the Routledge Philosophers series]

Alf Ross:  A Life by Jens Evald (DJØF Publishing, 2014).

Freud by Jonathan Lear, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2015) [in the Routledge Philosophers series]

Speech Matters:  On Lying, Morality, and the Law by Seana Valentine Shiffrin (Princeton University Press, 2014).

 

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