Eric Schwitzgebel

From one piece AI Slop and Evidence about Evidence: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  That an expert human generated a text is evidence that its view is worth thinking about, more than if an LLM generated it.

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  The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about -- more so than if the text were generated by an LLM.

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  There is a huge cognitive difference between approving a text one reads and actually generating it.

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  There's a huge cognitive difference between nodding along while reading something and actually productively generating a text.

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  Human experts think differently and better than LLMs.

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  Human experts think differently and better than LLMs.

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  Philosophy journals should want human-written rather than AI-written text.

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  Philosophy journals should also want human-generated rather than AI-generated text for the same evidential reasons.

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From one piece Online Conferences Should be Better than In-Person Conferences, Not Worse 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  If enough people try, online conferences will eventually be better overall than in-person conferences.

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  I anticipate that eventually, if we give it a good enough try, online conferences will be better overall than in-person conferences, even if not better in every respect -- but only if enough of us try, long enough, and in different ways, with the evolving tools that companies will be inspired to build if we create the market for them.

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  By cancelling its remote-conference experiment, the American Philosophical Association deprioritized people for whom travel is hard.

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  By canceling the 2+1 experiment, the APA once again deprioritized the interests of these groups.

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