LLMs leverage scaffolding and user psychology to appear as slabs of raw intelligence in service of a costly illusion.

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This paper examines the paradoxical decline in engagement with philosophy of science among engineers precisely when machine learning (ML) systems are increasingly performing complex epistemological fu...

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I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel …

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