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And the second paragraph?
I wonder if LLMs training on your work increases the chances of your work being falsely flagged by AI-detectors as…
These are the sort of systems that are currently used for “teaching” LLMs math and coding, as I understand it.…
Fortunately, we know (via M. Montinari) that Nietzsche scrapped section 1067, and never wanted it published. Good call!
Pangrammer, Make of it what I “will”? Okay. My comment argued, among other things, that the philosophically important question is…
Automated grading has existed for a long time. In my undergrad logic class, which used the Barwise & Etchemendy text,…
Isn’t there a philosophical tradition, explicit in Socrates, that one’s understanding of ethical issues is deeper if one thinks them…
A philosopher elsewhere writes with an amusing reaction to this week's melodrama:
This shit makes me want to retire.
I already don't "go out" in the philosophy blog-o-sewer, and maybe I'll stop going to conferences too.
Many of these people are not able enough to both do good philosophy and engage constantly in sanctimonious, and often quite nasty, moral police work. Many of them seem to be getting paid a lot to do mediocre scholarly work and spend 80% of their working hours on Facebook.
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