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I wonder if LLMs training on your work increases the chances of your work being falsely flagged by AI-detectors as…
These are the sort of systems that are currently used for “teaching” LLMs math and coding, as I understand it.…
Fortunately, we know (via M. Montinari) that Nietzsche scrapped section 1067, and never wanted it published. Good call!
Pangrammer, Make of it what I “will”? Okay. My comment argued, among other things, that the philosophically important question is…
Automated grading has existed for a long time. In my undergrad logic class, which used the Barwise & Etchemendy text,…
Isn’t there a philosophical tradition, explicit in Socrates, that one’s understanding of ethical issues is deeper if one thinks them…
Thank God for federal judges doing their jobs, and reining in the lawless ICE officers.
11/1/25 UPDATE: The 7th Circuit has stayed the requirement that Mr. Bovino report daily to the judge, but left the other aspects of the district court’s order in place. May not be wrong on the legal merits, but it is unfortunate given how lawless Bovino & gang are.
And the second paragraph?