Philosopher at University of Michigan. https://brian.weatherson.org/
Brian Weatherson is the Marshall Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He specializes in epistemology and philosophy of language.
I'll continue this thread when new stuff comes out.
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We call the latter formal methods and I think it's more helpful
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Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
In II.2, the LLM functions as a better search engine than any previously developed.
In II.3, it reports as a novel proof something it simply learned from scraping arXiv.
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
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They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Did everyone think, "oh, Rutger Bregman, he'll be cool with this"?
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And I hope thesis advisors help people learn.
The Australian system is nothing but equivalents of the big US state universities. That doesn’t undermine the value of the big US state universities.
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Minor league umpires have a higher accuracy rate on ball-strike calls than major league umpires but
(a) they are worse on easy calls and
(b) they are worse on hard calls.
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