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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

UT Austin philosopher Daniel Bonevac on why he is voting for Trump

A propos this earlier discussion, Professor Bonevac has explained his reasons in detail.  Some dubious factual claims are involved, and some even more dubious implicit claims about cause-and-effect.  But the basic mistake is in thinking that Trump means what he says, and so is an instrumentally rational choice given Professor Bonevac's stated objectives.

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