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New links…

1. “Researchers predict they’ll be able to start outsourcing more tedious sections of proofs to AI within the next few years. They’re mixed on whether AI will ever be able to prove their most important conjectures entirely” — how mathematicians are and will be using AI tools (via Eric Steinhart)
2. “A prisoner, stuck in his cell, dreams of all the things he could do if only he was free” — a three-minute film by Andy Lambert, which is part of a series of short films without dialogue and filmed with a stationary camera in only one shot
3. A controversial article whose acceptance was rescinded finds a new home — see the update at the end of the post
4. “Morality is never finished. It’s in constant evolutionary progress” — The New Yorker’s James Wood and philosopher Jonathan Rée discuss F.H. Bradley’s “My Station and Its Duties”
5. “The problem that commitments to DEI are trying to solve: to find avenues through which inter-group antagonisms and suspicions, usually based on ignorance, can be relaxed in favor of an acceptance of difference and an eagerness for learning from people different from oneself” — Daniel Little on the values at the core of DEI
6. “The one and the whole work of education may be summed up in the concept — Morality. And the first part of the educational aim is a person of many-sided and balanced interest” — Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841) is “interviewed” by Richard Marshall
7. “Here is a joke. A philosopher goes to a policy committee.” — Lisa Herzog reports on an Oxford workshop on policy-oriented political philosophy

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