I certainly didn't mean to spark all that with a comment about friendship!
I bet lots of people use a similar technique to accomplish certain jobs, though. Soldiers, for example. And maybe teachers. Forget the touchy-feely no red pen stuff. What if we regarded each set of student papers as something produced by an algorithmic entity? Get rid of any suspicions that so-and-so cheated, and whatshisname willfully ignored the assignment instructions, etc. Just grade them like a machine wrote them and the machine needs to be informed of its deficiencies. Would that help?
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I bet lots of people use a similar technique to accomplish certain jobs, though. Soldiers, for example. And maybe teachers. Forget the touchy-feely no red pen stuff. What if we regarded each set of student papers as something produced by an algorithmic entity? Get rid of any suspicions that so-and-so cheated, and whatshisname willfully ignored the assignment instructions, etc. Just grade them like a machine wrote them and the machine needs to be informed of its deficiencies. Would that help?
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