[FRIAM] Who wrote the essay?
Stephen Guerin
stephen.guerin at simtable.com
Sat Dec 17 17:31:56 EST 2022
Prior to an hour ago, I was 60% confident Darren is human
Evidence:
- Website with bio has been around since 2007 in wayback archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20070701021329/http://www.typetoken.com/
- And he would have to pull off a fake Furman University page (is Furman
real?)
https://www.furman.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hick-cv-2022.pdf
- and perhaps deep faking a Youtube
https://youtu.be/bpXTff0BOtI
Now 93% confident after having this Turing Test exchange over SMS phone
number from his CV this afternoon :-) I'll upgrade to 97% if the Amazon
gift card is claimed (shows hotmail email is active and has a functioning
Amazon account).
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 2:01 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:
>
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> Tom's original Facebook link was from a Professor Darren Hudson Hick
> <https://www.facebook.com/5722102/posts/pfbid0D8i4GuCUJeRsDJjM1JJtfkDYDMCb7Y7RdK2EoyVhRuctg9z2fhvpo1bB2WAxGBzcl/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=ijjfgs>
> complaining about students using chatGPT and how it just reads like
> bullshit.
>
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> [image: image.png]
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> I tried to figure out if Professor Darren Hudson Hick was a bot or not.
> I still am unsure seeing his research page prose
> <http://www.typetoken.com/research.html> and after reading his own PhD
> proposal which is the prose I submitted to you all
> <http://www.typetoken.com/research_phd.html> .
> [image: image.png]
>
> If he is human, I think Robert's advice is sound and he should start
> using ChatGPT ! :-)
>
>
>
>>
>> —Robert
>>
>>
>> Title: The Metaphysics and Ethics of Copyright: A Philosophical Analysis
>>
>> Research Questions:
>>
>> - What are the metaphysical foundations of copyright law? How does
>> the concept of "intellectual property" fit into traditional metaphysical
>> categories such as substance, cause, and essence?
>> - How do different ethical theories, such as deontology,
>> consequentialism, and virtue ethics, approach the issue of copyright? What
>> are the strengths and weaknesses of each perspective?
>> - How do the metaphysical and ethical issues surrounding copyright
>> intersect with contemporary debates over digital technology, artificial
>> intelligence, and the "commons"?
>>
>> Research Methodology:
>>
>> - This research will be primarily philosophical in nature, using
>> conceptual analysis and argumentative synthesis to examine the underlying
>> assumptions and implications of copyright law.
>> - The research will draw on a variety of sources, including legal
>> scholarship, philosophy of law, and moral philosophy, as well as case
>> studies and empirical data as appropriate.
>> - The research will engage with contemporary debates and
>> controversies, such as the ongoing conflict between technology companies
>> and content creators, and the role of copyright in global economic
>> development.
>>
>> Expected Contributions:
>>
>> - This research aims to provide a more nuanced and comprehensive
>> understanding of the metaphysics and ethics of copyright, moving beyond
>> simplistic assumptions and polemics.
>> - The research will offer a philosophical perspective on the complex
>> and multifaceted issues surrounding intellectual property, and will provide
>> a framework for further dialogue and reflection on these issues.
>> - The research will contribute to the broader fields of philosophy
>> and law, and will have practical implications for policy and legal reform.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 10:47 AM Tom Johnson <jtjohnson555 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I can't tell. While what little I know about the deep dive on
>>> Copyright, it is a very murky and often contradictory aspect of law. Sorta
>>> like the 2nd Amendment: something written by the founders in a time when
>>> the context it was addressing was quite different from what we have now.
>>> And I have no idea how well ChatGPT can or does write in the first
>>> person.
>>> And the answer is?????
>>> TJ
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 12:42 AM Stephen Guerin <
>>> stephen.guerin at simtable.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tom,
>>>>
>>>> What do you think? Was this PhD proposal written by a person or ChatGPT?
>>>>
>>>> The Metaphysics and Ethics of Copyright
>>>>>
>>>>> Abstract
>>>>>
>>>>> My project is motivated by a host of problems that arise in the
>>>>> literature of U.S. copyright law, including legal decisions and established
>>>>> doctrines that are alternatively arbitrary, counterintuitive, and
>>>>> contradictory. The central argument of my dissertation is that these
>>>>> problems arise from a failure in copyright law to recognize the nature of
>>>>> its objects, authored works, and that a coherent and stable approach to
>>>>> copyright must be built upon such an understanding. To this end, I outline
>>>>> a multidimensional ontology of authored works suitable for grounding the
>>>>> central principles and practical application of copyright.
>>>>>
>>>>> Centrally, I contend, a reasonable understanding of copyright depends
>>>>> on grasping four dimensions of the nature of authored works:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. their atomic dimension, including the parts of which they are
>>>>> composed, and the selection and arrangement of these parts;
>>>>> 2. their causal dimension, including their contexts of creation
>>>>> and instantiation, and the weak and strong historical links that connect a
>>>>> given work to others (building here on the work of Jerrold Levinson);
>>>>> 3. their abstract dimension, in particular, pace Nelson Goodman,
>>>>> Jerrold Levinson, and Mark Sagoff, that all such works are best understood
>>>>> as type/token entities capable of multiple instantiation; and
>>>>> 4. their categorial dimension, drawing on the work of Kendall
>>>>> Walton, such that multiple works belonging to mutually-exclusive categories
>>>>> can be embodied in the same physical object.
>>>>>
>>>>> On an understanding of these factors, I establish conditions for the
>>>>> copyrightability of authored works, for the infringement of these
>>>>> copyrights, and for the creation of derivative works.
>>>>>
>>>>> Finally, I consider the right of copyright. First showing how the
>>>>> strongest contenders for grounding this right—the Lockean and
>>>>> Constitutional approaches—fail to align with our understanding of authored
>>>>> works, I proceed to sketch an alternative approach to grounding the right
>>>>> of copyright—a right based on the author's creativity as realized in the
>>>>> authored work—building on the ontological account outlined above.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 11:08 PM Tom Johnson <jtjohnson555 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.facebook.com/5722102/posts/pfbid0D8i4GuCUJeRsDJjM1JJtfkDYDMCb7Y7RdK2EoyVhRuctg9z2fhvpo1bB2WAxGBzcl/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=ijjfgs
>>>>>
>>>>
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