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I came across this article today. https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-investigators-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477 Apparently, the (irresponsible) use of AI was partly to blame for the American…
I’d just like to add one last point regarding what I’ve been calling, with no technical pretense, the AI/LLM hazard…
I agree fully with this argument. And then I would add, the exponential growth in AI capabilities means that the…
Liked the interpretationist stance that individual LLM instances have beliefs and desires, essentially because otherwise it is hard to explain…
Well now we know you CANT find arbitrarily close approximations in all cases because there is no true function to…
We’re getting outside my domain of expertise. Like I said, I don’t personally work on fluid dynamics – I work…
Nobody uses the NS equations to find their *real actual solutions* in engineering problems. They use approximations. The math question…
UPDATE: The comments on the 2007 thread may take a half minute or more to load, please be patient.
Maybe it's just me, but the link doesn't show the comments/discussion. It says comments are closed.
BL: It may take 30 seconds or so for the comments to load, sorry about that.
As far as I can see knowledge first epistemology, testimony, disagreement, social epistemology, virtue epistemology were and still are hot topics. Bullseye! However, I would like to add one topic that was getting hot back then and is surely hot topic: understanding. Catherine Elgin, Linda Zagzebski, Stephen Grimm, Jonathan Kvanvig were all talking about understanding back then and they still are, specially Stephen Grimm who edited 3 volumes on understanding:
1) Varieties of Understanding: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology. Ed. Stephen R. Grimm. New York: Oxford University Press. (2019)
2) Making Sense of the World: New Essays in the Philosophy of Understanding. Ed. Stephen R. Grimm. New York: Oxford University Press. (2018)
3) Explaining Understanding: New Essays in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. Eds. Stephen R. Grimm, Christoph Baumberger, & Sabine Ammon. New York: Routledge. (2016)
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