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Discussion welcome.

1. “As we rely on [more and more] data to get our bearings and exercise our agency, we lose definition as individuals” — Nicholas Carr on the tradeoffs of living in world of data
2. Can LLMs become better at correctly answering our questions by debating each other? — yes, but better enough? And for what kinds of questions?
3. “Reacting to the Past” provides detailed role-playing games for college courses — Greta LaFore (Gonzaga) discusses her experiences teaching with one focused on Darwin
4. “How do we drive new knowledge and science? What are their present boundaries? And how can we improve science?” – a new book by Alexander Krauss (LSE), open access at OUP, takes up the science of science
5. We should continue to read “immoral philosophers” because “sometimes you can learn valuable things from people who did bad stuff” — but “it can be interesting to think about why one might believe opposite,” says Liam Kofi Bright (LSE)
6. Are laws of nature more like a layer cake, a newspaper, or a straitjacket? — Mario Hubert (LMU) surveys these different approaches
7. New study: humans can’t distinguish poetry written by AI from that written by humans and they tend to prefer the former — Why? Brian Porter and Edouard Machery (Pitt) have some thoughts on that

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