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  1. Keith Douglas's avatar

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

  2. 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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  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

High quality academic dialogue…

courtesy of Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, astrophysicist.  Part of the difficulty with the culture of deception and dissembling that now thrives in certain quarters of the academy is that one can't even discuss what's really going on and whether and when it is justifiable without provoking irrational abuse.  (It is of course sometimes justifiable, but not for the mindless reasons usually given.)

UPDATE:  Among the philosophers to endorse "fuck off" (through liking or retweeting) as a response to an argument are Shen-yi Liao (Puget Sound) and the "logician" Richard Zach (Calgary).  Class acts, they are, but I'm sure everyone will duly note their position.

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