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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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    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

Philosopher Sophie Allen (Keele) on Gender Critical Feminism and a recent confused critique in the popular media

This is a really good essay, heads-and-shoulders above the sneering nonsense from the "narcissistic half-wits" on social media (to borrow Professor Stock's apt description).  It's been nearly a year since I first called attention to some of Professor Stock's writing, and there has literally been only one remotely serious and (mostly) substantive response–although, to be sure, there has been a lot of hand-waving about "the literature," content-free mockery, and moral indignation at verboten thoughts.   This, in itself, is revealing:  for some reason, the opponents of Gender Critical Feminism seem unable to successfully defend their views philosophically.

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