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I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that
For what it’s worth, I agree. I have, with some trepidation, given it a bunch of my papers and asked…
Looking at some of the AI-amplified cranks on philpeople, it is hard to agree with the assessment of this article.…
Perhaps a useful distinction here is between replacing philosophers and changing the conditions under which philosophical work gets done. LLMs…
Conditional on the hypothesis that journal editors sometimes desk reject high-quality papers written and commended by world experts on a…
Some users seem to have conflicting impressions about the (absolute level of) abilities of current iterations of the LLMs. But…
They are: Marilyn McCord Adams (currently affiliated with Rutgers, emerita at North Carolina and UCLA), David Albert (Columbia), Sally Haslanger (MIT), John MacFarlane (Berkeley), Tim Maudlin (NYU), Hans Kamp (Stuttgart & Texas), and Johann van Benthem (Amsterdam & Stanford). In addition, Patricia Smith Churchland (UC San Diego) was elected in the Neurosciences section.
(Past posts on the AAAS here [and follow the links].)
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