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Apologies: GPT-3, not GPT-2. Point still stands, though.
With GRE scores we can quantify the extent to which minorities, women, and lower-income applicants do worse than majorities, men,…
I find the timing here noteworthy. ChatGPT was released November 30, 2022. So in all likelihood this layoff occurred when…
It’s sad to see departments reinstate GREs and see others advocating for it. Back in 2020, I wrote an open…
Indeed that remark resonates with our topic, but note that it comes from a very early and never published essay.…
In the context of this blog, I am somewhat surprised nobody has mentioned Nietzsche! “What then is truth? … a…
I review a recent book of legal philosophy.
My review itself has been favorably reviewed by UCLA lawprof Steve Bainbridge on Twitter: "The opening line of @BrianLeiter's review is worth the price of admission. If more law professors wrote with his flair, legal scholarship would be a lot more entertaining. His range from rapier to saber to battleaxe is remarkable."
I have an academic monograph in production with a large European academic publisher that appears to outsource production to a…