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I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…
I’m not sure I’d yet go so far as to call LLMs an existential threat to universities. But I do…
My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…
I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…
If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…
Maybe people are more interested in engaging with human interlocutors than with machine ones, no matter what the argument.
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books in July:
Peirce by Albert Atkin (Routledge, 2016) [this is part of my Routledge Philosophers series]
The Trolley Problem Mysteries by F.M. Kamm (Oxford University Press, 2015) (with replies by Judith Jarvis Thomson, Thomas Hurka, and Shelly Kagan).
Music and Aesthetic Reality: Formalism and the Limits of Description by Nick Zangwill (Routledge, 2015).
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