Daniel Propson

"He's kind of a strange dude, but in the best way possible." - student

Detroiter; Philosophy Prof; OU Phil Camp advisor; Plato stan; musician; husband; dad.

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

@2Philosophical_ "So much for the logical problem of evil. But what of the evidence? The evidential PoE claims that, although God and evil could coexist, the world has so many atrocities that it can't be reconciled with a good God.

For instance, in 1968, it is well known that Leonard Nimoy..."

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

@johnphilosopher GPT could be used to do the response here, too. Doesn't seem very brilliant, to me.

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@MrmuddT @ProfKreg Typo: ... money and ignorance *are* united against us

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

@MrmuddT @ProfKreg Could be, but another angle is to say that the academy ought to, whenever possible, communicate effectively to the society about how what we do is valuable. I don't think we do that well.

I also think forces of money and ignorance and united against us. Both things can be true.

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@ProfKreg @jennfrey Snitch tag? Sheesh. I just mentioned her name with a tag. I knew you weren't trying to hide what you were saying from her.

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

@ProfKreg Did @jennfrey ever claim that there was only one cause? Does writing a tweet focusing on one cause imply that one believes there are no other causes?

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@ProfKreg I don't think I'd agree with her about all this, in broad strokes, but it's undeniable that academics who are affronted by state encroachment (as we all should be) would do well to maintain very high standards of academic freedom within their disciplines.

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

@ProfKreg Isn't there a plain and obvious explanation? Dr. Frey thinks that academic freedom is a great thing that was undermined by internal encroachments ("wokeness"), leading to an external backlash that is destroying aspects of that great thing.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

Person: This is what I think, it's just written by AI.

Me: This is not what you think. Had you sat down to write a piece yourself, you would have discovered what you think. Here's a pen.

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@MattLutzPhi Who are these relativists? They're hardly to be found at all among philosophers I've met. Even antirealists are antireal in a way that clearly indicates they genuinely don't think it's ok to hold many moral views.

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@DanFriedman81 "AI papers are mediocre to bad"

They're better than this imprecise, sloppy, and unconvincing claim.

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

Ok, this is absurd on all sides. The idea that the student showing his/her Google Docs history could be exculpatory is bizarre. Manually typing an AI paper is possible and is common practice.

I am so glad I'm not teaching grad students, in this environment.

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

This is insane. A student’s 30-page senior thesis was apparently flagged as “AI-generated” by an automated plagiarism tool. He’s facing an automatic failing grade, academic suspension, and potentially losing a $45,000 scholarship. He even offered to show his Google Docs version history to prove the paper was written manually.

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

I feel like the "let's let AI write our papers and our students' papers" crowd completely recognizes how morally outrageous the view is, but they're taking an extreme view in order to force a "compromise" that they would favor.

It just all feels like gaslighting.

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

@dfkodsi @BrandonWarmke Relativism was a trendy word once, though it didn't accurately describe the beliefs of the "relativists" in the academy.

It is not a trendy word now, and it still doesn't describe anyone's beliefs accurately.

Moreover, many critics of wokeness are as much relativists as anyone.

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@bkpark Most universities have no procedure for this, and the idea of bringing in a committee for the grading of an assignment is something that seems quite beyond the capacity of universities that have teachers teaching multiple sections of 30+ students.

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

This seems right, but I don't know how schools can effectively empower teachers to *grade* conversations. An essay is a public object whose poor evaluation one can be held accountable for. A conversation is quite different.

Perhaps grades should be on the chopping block, too.

[Jose Luis @lasmuchedumbres]

Lo bueno de la inteligencia artificial es que forzosamente habrá un retorno a la oralidad socrática para detectar a los ignorantes y a los fraudes. Miles de años después.

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

@JohnHolbein1 OK, but if you put your writing into AI detectors, does it get flagged? Or is the worry that people will assume it's AI, regardless of whether any pseudoreliable source sees evidence of it?

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

Amazing the things you read on this platform...

"The real Christian path is to ... maximize one’s human potential, cultivating strength, vitality, agency etc, while still acting justly to protect the weak and the vulnerable."

Apparently Aristotle had it right
Who needs Jesus?

[Daniel Propson @Daniel_Propson]

@Sapphademic Exactly!

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"Positivity for the most revolutionary educational technology in history is verboten."

Huh. I would have thought academics were still pretty enthusiastic about books.

[Jim Nargent @JNargent]

@emollick I feel like the bigger story here is that academics are cowed into public silence. The culture in higher education is extraordinarily political and intolerant, marked by shaming and cancellation.

Positivity for the most revolutionary educational technology in history is verboten