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There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…
I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…
Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…
I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…
Hear hear
Philosopher Phil Gasper (Madison Technical College) calls my attention to this critique adding, aptly: "I think the biggest problem with 'effective altruism' is that it focuses on a very limited kind of individual action, and ignores the question of collective action aimed at making much bigger political changes and/or addressing structural problems, but this article makes an interesting point too."
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