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New comment by pinnate in "Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness"

pinnate — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:12:48 +0000

Much of this is either simply not Aristotle, or a paraphrase from one of his works incorrectly attributed to another. My slop meter is pinging.

Edit:

Between the misattributions, fabricated quotes, listicle format, thin explanatory paragraphs, and use of “delve” (posted Nov 2024 - during ChatGPT’s Delve Era), this is a pretty embarrassing thing for a Liberal Arts college to post.

New comment by pinnate in "Scanning for Pangram Errors"

pinnate — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:33:28 +0000

I’m a teacher that requires students to write, so I’m always on the lookout for reliable AI detection. Haven’t anything close to reliable yet, but Pangram definitely seemed to be better than anything else in my (very limited) tests.

That said, it did incorrectly flag something that I personally wrote as AI, which baffled me. I spent a while playing around with the text and feeding it back into Pangram, trying to figure out what the issue was. Turns out, I had a section in the text with three bullet points. I removed the bullets (literally just the bullets themselves, no actual text) and it passed as human. While it seems to perform better than anything else, I’m a bit skeptical of their claimed success rate.

New comment by pinnate in "Military's UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report"

pinnate — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 16:21:56 +0000

Which is funny, because MA actually wrote his Meditations in Greek. The line in question is:

ὁ κόσμος ἀλλοίωσις, ὁ βίος ὑπόληψις. (Aur. Med. 4.3)