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I think I would answer “Does the fact that the United States of America has never experienced a foreign occupation…
Rex Martin was a first class person with a sharp intellect and wry sense of humor. He was an excellent…
21. Is style the last refuge against AI?
All about class.
*important caveat that said TT job was secured via an internal hire where two other grads of the same school…
Excellent questions! Re question 6, I have actually already invented a new punctuation mark. I can’t type it here, as…
Hard-hitting article, which mentions one philosopher, John Tasioulas, who recently stepped down from the “Ethics in AI” project at Oxford to return to his native Australia. (When I ran into an Oxford person recently, she said they were instructed by lawyers “not to talk about” Tasioulas’s departure.)
UPDATE: Professor Tasioulas denies the allegations, and says he will take legal action.
The phrase ‘Does the fact’ naturally invites howls of derision: it’s a fact that every child knows that the Japanese…