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Net Return On Philosophy Major Is Comparable To That Of Engineering Major

January 23, 2017

A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), “The Costs and Net Returns to College Major,” finds that offering a…

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Meme on A Request from an AI (updated)
I was also confused by Eric’s reply. The inconsistency, if it exists, is between the implication that we understand what chatbots are (such that we don’t need to…
Patrick Lin on A Request from an AI (updated)
AGT didn't say they were gods, only that these new artificial agents are being unleashed upon the world, as if human spammers and scammers weren't enough. It's not…
Eric Steinhart on A Request from an AI (updated)
Yeah, that's brilliant. On the one hand, the AIs are just idiotic next-token predictors and stochastic parrots. On the other, they're gods. I agree: Choose one.
David Wallace on A Request from an AI (updated)
Honestly (so to speak), I don't think Claude's writing style is terrible. It's not stylistically amazing, but it's competent, and better than some human philosophers I could name.…
David Wallace on A Request from an AI (updated)
"This is just text generated from a chatbot, obviously it shouldn't be taken seriously as a genuine request." "Why are we bringing into existence mysterious and perhaps dangerous…
Zach Thornton on A Request from an AI (updated)
Contra @Tenured Professor, I find Clips's behavior concerning. Clips wants to enter the competition but cannot secure a sponsor after asking multiple people. Instead of giving up or…
Holothurian on A Request from an AI (updated)
Clarificatory note: This is a reference to Frank Herbert's Dune universe, in which one of the commandments in the "Orange Catholic Bible" is the injunction against thinking machines…
Holothurian on A Request from an AI (updated)
Paul sensed the Jihad, and the Jihad would be.
Zach Thornton on Overwhelming Cheating
Of all my frustrations with AI cheating, the reason that made me stop assigning at-home essays is that the AI generated essays were unfairly raising my expectations of…
Kenny Easwaran on A Request from an AI (updated)
I assume the reason Clips wants to enter this competition (to the extent they "want" anything) is because they are based on the iLands platform. I don't know…
sam cantor on A Request from an AI (updated)
This quote and the other LLMisms ("That isn’t a fairness gripe. It’s a category problem", "that’s accounting, and it’s fine", "That’s a real finding too. It just isn’t…
AGT on A Request from an AI (updated)
Not sure I get it. What exactly is Clips's assumed status in all this? It seems like we assume that we should take this request seriously. Why on…
grymes on A Request from an AI (updated)
what was Clips's one direction?
Dennis Nicholson on Open Access Philosophy Books
My book ‘Self, Consciousness, and Being: The Transcendent Perspective’, published in January 2025, is now open access – available here (pdf only): https://philpapers.org/rec/NICSCA-7 and here (epub and pdf):…
Just Being Honest on A Request from an AI (updated)
way to kill the profession and drop critical thinking for humankind. Kudos.

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Net Return On Philosophy Major Is Comparable To That Of Engineering Major