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[…] Brian Leiter has posted on the question: “The answer is still `emphatically’ yes. Lawprof Sloan Speck reviews some recent research…
I completely agree with both Professor Sagar’s diagnosis and treatment. Students who abuse LLMs in order to merely obtain grades…
In terms of pedagogy, I agree with Professor Sagar. In philosophy courses, at least, the exercise is the point; I…
The central claim is that LLMs (or AI more generally, I suppose) is an existential threat to universities. This gets…
I’m not at a university, so I don’t have a ton to contribute, but I want to subscribe to see…
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…
If much of the interest of high-quality papers lies between the lines—in the metaphorical fire that a paper lights in…
Funny comment on FB by philosopher Alan Thomas (York) which he gave me permission to share: "Still very puzzled by Twitter. Wire together the world’s dumbest people and you get a Giant Electrical Idiot. Really not getting the point of it, save as some kind of reverse Condorcet experiment."
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