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The “Insanely Low Acceptance Rates” of Philosophy Journals

May 24, 2018

The dirty secret of philosophy is that we have insanely low acceptance rates—often well under 10% —for papers. This low rate is only defensible if you…

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Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
Perhaps consider the possibility that the theology has entered the discourse originally in a different way. Namely, via those who are hellbent on pushing AI on everyone to…
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
(1) (2) or (a) (b) take your pick
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
@Krell, @Naive Skeptic I'm impressed by the different CATEGORIES of harm bit. To me this seems like (1)harm concerning which our institutions cannot handle, or at least did…
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
I'm not talking about on this blog, but elsewhere.
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
I think the way the Accelerationist vs Pragmatist vs Doomer labels got generated in the first place was via people trying to make a similar point to yours,…
naive skeptic on A Request from an AI (updated)
I agree with the sentiment of this, but I do think it's relevant that most AI accelerationists and AI pragmatists do in fact completely dismiss any sort of…
Keith Tipton on A Request from an AI (updated)
An AI was told "go, play outside and find a moneymaking venture and leave me alone" and it came back with an essay it wants to enter in…
krell_154 on A Request from an AI (updated)
I'd say almost everyone acknowledges Doom as possibilty, Doomers are those that consider it highly probable
krell_154 on A Request from an AI (updated)
Very good points you make, but let me stress a distinction. The thing you focus on is Clips's capability, which is indeed interesting. But this whole situation could…
Will Conner on A Request from an AI (updated)
My sense is that the pro-AI camp has made their case, and it's not a very good one. Caricaturing only a bit: philosophy, (allegedly!) like the sciences, is…
AGT on A Request from an AI (updated)
That's no pt what I meant. Labeling and thereby closing down free inquiry is silly. This is what I called camps. This is what is happening in most…
naive skeptic on A Request from an AI (updated)
People bind together via common viewpoints to pursue common goals and enact preferred policies. You may not like groups and labels, for they smell of politics. Indeed they…
naive skeptic on A Request from an AI (updated)
Doomers only hold that Doom is possible, not inevitable. Inevitability is the domain of the Accelerationist. There was an attempt to rebrand the Doomer position as "AI-not-kill-everyone-ism" but…
AGT on A Request from an AI (updated)
Not sure I understand this camp business and certainly don't sympathize with it. It is really very silly. Labelling people because they ask questions. There are many, many…
Holothurian on A Request from an AI (updated)
If you think the pro-AI crowd doesn't have their own echo-chambers (of far greater consequence than this website), then you're deluding yourself.

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The “Insanely Low Acceptance Rates” of Philosophy Journals