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I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…
Hear hear
I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…
I’m not sure I’d yet go so far as to call LLMs an existential threat to universities. But I do…
My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…
I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…
If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…
MOVING TO FRONT FROM MARCH 9–UPDATED
…at 3AM. Alas, they didn't talk about his Nietzsche work, which is also noteworthy!
ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE: Now the interview has been expanded to include some discussion of Risse's Nietzsche work!
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