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

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

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    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

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“With Obama invading Texas and imposing martial law…”

Brian Leiter

A funny missive from a lawyer friend in New York:

With Obama invading Texas and imposing martial law, I thought that I would check in to make sure that all is well. It won’t be long before everyone who ever lived in Texas will be shackled in rail cars and returned to the once-free Republic so that they can be monitored in Walmart prisons. I assume that ex-Texans in Chicago are particularly vulnerable because of the Stasi that Obama has in place there from his years as a purported “organizer” and because there are so few armed militias in Chicagoland to resist tyranny. I can only pray to Cheney that you avoid the worst that is coming.

ADDENDUM:  Via Twitter, comes this funny piece.

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