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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…

Lederman from Princeton to Texas/Austin

Harvey Lederman (logic, epistemology, philosophy of langauge, Chinese philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he will start in January 2023.  That's a big catch for Texas, which together with other hires since the last PGR (and senior departures at some of the departments ranked higher in the 2021 PGR), ought to push the department to the cusp of the top 10.

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