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Ruth Scurr: uncertainty

1 Dec 2021 Conversations with Tyler Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography

“I can imagine that. I haven’t done it yet, so I don’t know, but that makes sense.”

— Ruth Scurr

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Speaker
Ruth Scurr
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
1 Dec 2021
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…On a second read they held up quite well for me, but I would say one and two rose in status and three and four fell a bit. Yes, that I can imagine. I can imagine that. I haven’t done it yet, so I don’t know, but that makes sense. You know there is a recent machine-learning study that suggests they were written by a man, Domenico Starnone. It may or may not be true, but it’s plausibly true. I find that disturbing as a thought.…

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