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  1. Mark's avatar

    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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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,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

  6. A in the UK's avatar

    I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…

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    If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…

Shafer-Landau from North Carolina back to Wisconsin

Russ Shafer-Landau (ethics, metaethics), who moved from the University of Wisconsin at Madison to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015, will be returning to Wisconsin beginning in 2017-18.  Since this is significant for the metaethics specialty ranking (esp. for Wisconsin, Chapel Hill has other prominent figures in that area), I will be posting a revised version shortly.

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