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I feel obligated to push back on some parts of this post a little bit… To be clear about where…
According to Pangram 4.0, 100% of this text is AI-generated. For comparison, I’ve sampled a number of comments (including the…
Some think I have been too harsh; that I must have “screwed up,” if I’ve concluded that so many “professionally…
The existence of disagreement isn’t proof truth hasn’t been established. There are people who dispute all kinds of well-established truths,…
Without prejudice to other threads in Dan Kaufman’s statement, it seems premature to say that real or hypothetical AI systems…
He writes: “A startling number of our colleagues have thereby betrayed that they have no idea what our subject is…
Continuing last week’s journey down (my) memory lane, I wrote this song after the murder of John Lennon and the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. It’s lyrical content is still relevant, given America, alas. (I still haven’t heard anyone say: “ban all guns.”) (As noted in the earlier post, this is a 4-track recording, literally “basement tapes.”)
UPDATE: Ironically, I posted this about an hour before the latest gun craziness in Washington, DC.
Isn’t there a philosophical tradition, explicit in Socrates, that one’s understanding of ethical issues is deeper if one thinks them…