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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.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
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,…
Here, and quite interesting I thought. I like this exchange in particular:
Q: If you had to, how would you define philosophy? Why should people study it?
A: It’s the attempt to get our bearings, as broadly and systematically as possible. People should study it because everybody’s trying, as best they can, to get their bearings.
One of the striking things about people is they can have their "bearings" while having contradictory and unsystematic and often clearly false views!
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