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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…

“The Hard Problem of Breakfast”

How does it emerge from bacon and eggs?  But it doesn't:  it's just token identical with them.  Indeed breakfast is multiply realized–it can even be identical with cold pizza eaten at the right time of day.

(Thanks to Peter Carruthers for the pointer.)

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