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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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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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The 376 most cited philosophers in the Stanford Encyclopedia that were born since 1900

Courtesy of Professor Schwitzgebel.  The list says a lot about Anglophone philosophy (and SEP), perhaps a bit less about philosophy. 

(Yours truly is tied at #377 according to the Schwitzgebel method.  So close to greatness, but, alas, no cigar.   No cigar, either, for Alexander Nehamas, Jonathan Lear, John Gardner, Leslie Green, Seana Shiffrin, Imra Lakatos, Gilles Deleuze, Robert Pippin, Frederick Neuhouser, and Mark Wilson, among other surprising absences.)   

ADDENDUM:  A reader sends this Google N-Gram (based on searching all books in google) for the period 2000-2020, using philosophers from the top, middle, and bottom of the SEP list, plus some of the "no cigar" folks.  Of course, this would not distinguish between authored and edited works, and it would also pick up "impact" outside philosophy.

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