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    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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

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    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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Five philosophers elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

They are:  Anita Allen (Penn), Nancy Fraser (New School), Clark Glymour (Carnegie-Mellon), Brad Inwood (Yale), and Tommie Shelby (Harvard).  This is a more reasonable outcome than one might have expected given the issues noted last fall, although I can report that many at least as worthy candidates on the inital ballot were not elected this time around (of those, one was a woman [but not a feminist philosopher, but clearly a leader in her field], while the others were all men).  (The new way the AAAS is listing the newly elected members is much harder to decipher than in the past; I hope they'll fix it!)

ADDENDUM:  Enrique Dussell (UNAM) was also elected, although it's unclear whether it was for his work in theology or in philosophy–philosophy is conjoined with "religious studies" as a section of the Academy.  My recollection is that he was not on the philosophy ballot from the fall, but I may be wrong.

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