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  1. Mark's avatar

    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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  3. Jonathan Turner's avatar

    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

  6. A in the UK's avatar

    I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…

  7. André Hampshire's avatar

    If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…

Dear People of the World:

Brian Leiter

I am sorry that the President of my country is a pathologically dishonest, narcissistic imbecile. I hope you and we all survive it.

UPDATE: Longtime reader Henry Cohen writes:

I am sorry that the congressional Republicans refuse to stop him, even though they could. I blame them more than I do him, because he is mentally ill and cannot control himself, whereas most of them are not, but are cold-bloodedly allowing a pathologically dishonest, narcissistic imbecile to engage in mass killing and destruction for the sake of their pitiful jobs–pitiful because they’ve relinquished their power to him anyway.

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