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I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that
For what it’s worth, I agree. I have, with some trepidation, given it a bunch of my papers and asked…
Looking at some of the AI-amplified cranks on philpeople, it is hard to agree with the assessment of this article.…
Perhaps a useful distinction here is between replacing philosophers and changing the conditions under which philosophical work gets done. LLMs…
Conditional on the hypothesis that journal editors sometimes desk reject high-quality papers written and commended by world experts on a…
Some users seem to have conflicting impressions about the (absolute level of) abilities of current iterations of the LLMs. But…
Via Nathan Salmon on FB, I learned about Emitt Rhodes, a Californian singer-songwriter, who on his self-titled debut, recorded in his home, he played all the instruments and sang all the vocal parts. At the time he was dubbed "the one-man Beatles," and listeners will note the similarity to Paul McCartney, in particular. This was the single from that album, which made the Billboard top 100, but not the top 40.
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