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New links… Which button should you press? — Richard Chappell on a recent viral poll “It is somewhat puzzling that… so few universities have found ways to make the case [for] independent education and the advancement and preservation of knowledge” — Eric Schliesser on cynicism in the academy “Qualia are not puzzles that can be solved by increasingly elegant syntax” — an argument that purports to “locate the exact logical collapse within computational functionalism” and show why today’s AI’s can’t