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    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

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    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

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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…

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    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

More reason to think the Democratic primary contest will come down to Sanders and Bloomberg

Biden's dysmal fifth-place finish in New Hampshire is the beginning of the end.  Creepy Pete will do poorly in South Carolina and Nevada.  Senator Warren, sadly, looks to be finished.  Senator Klobuchar will also do poorly in South Carolina and Nevada.   Bloomberg, meanwhile, is targetting the crucial demographic he needs for the Democratic nomination, beyond the suburban voters that have drifted away from the Repugs and that he'll lock up easily over Sanders.  And, of course, he has more financial resources than any of his competitors.  Given that the Democratic Party has been for at least thirty years now merely the prudent and less vicious wing of the ruling class, what could be more apt than nominating a billionaire to take on the perfect symbol of the imprudent and very vicious wing of the ruling class?

UPDATE:  As if on cue!  (Thanks to Jerry Dworkin for the pointer.)

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