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  1. sahpa's avatar

    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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  4. Mark Robert Taylor's avatar

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

  5. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

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

  6. Claudio's avatar

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

  7. Charles Pigden's avatar

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

Gorsuch, Garland, and the U.S. Supreme Court

Judge Gorsuch, nominated by President [sic]  Trump for the U.S. Supreme Court, is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former Supreme Court clerk himself.  Judge Garland, nominated last year by President Obama for the Supreme Court, is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former Supreme Court clerk himself.  Both are currently sitting federal courts of appeal judges.  The Republicans, it will be recalled, refused to even consider Judge Garland; they are now demanding, of course, prompt consideration of Judge Gorsuch.  What's going on? This is what's going on.

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