Arguing against pessimists often feels silly. Why can’t one just face up to the sober truth—the truth that we have failed and should expect to fail in the future? Grasping at straws…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
“Taking It Not at Face Value: A New Taxonomy for the Beliefs Acquired from Conversational AIs” (2024), written by Japanese scholar Shun Iizuka, deals with the question of trust and belief with regard to the way humans interact with conversational AIs such as ChatGPT. This question has since garnered increasing prominence with the public releases of reasoning models, with DeepSeek releasing their R1 model in January 2025 (Sharma 2025) and OpenAI responding with their o3-mini model just 10 ...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
The company developed DeepSeek-R1 by using pure reinforcement learning on top of DeepSeek-V3-Base, and matched or beat o1 on some benchmarks.| VentureBeat
The Spiritual Existential Threats Posed by AI, David Ellis and Jag Bhalla| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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