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View article: Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI
Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI Open
Whether AI models can introspect is an increasingly important practical question. But there is no consensus on how introspection is to be defined. Beginning from a recently proposed ''lightweight'' definition, we argue instead for a thicke…
View article: Maximal Social Welfare Relations on Infinite Populations Satisfying Permutation Invariance
Maximal Social Welfare Relations on Infinite Populations Satisfying Permutation Invariance Open
We study social welfare relations (SWRs) on an infinite population. Our main result is a new characterization of a utilitarian SWR as the \emph{largest} SWR (in terms of subset when the weak relation is viewed as a set of pairs) which sati…
View article: A Dominance Argument Against Incompleteness
A Dominance Argument Against Incompleteness Open
This article presents a new argument against many forms of moral and prudential value incompleteness. The argument relies on two central principles: (i) a weak "negative dominance" principle, to the effect that Lottery 1 is better than Lot…
View article: Issue Information
Issue Information Open
Glad to be alive: how we can compare a person's existence and her non-existence in terms of what
View article: Are Language Models More Like Libraries or Like Librarians? Bibliotechnism, the Novel Reference Problem, and the Attitudes of LLMs
Are Language Models More Like Libraries or Like Librarians? Bibliotechnism, the Novel Reference Problem, and the Attitudes of LLMs Open
Are LLMs cultural technologies like photocopiers or printing presses, which transmit information but cannot create new content? A challenge for this idea, which we call bibliotechnism, is that LLMs generate novel text. We begin with a defe…
View article: Incompleteness, Independence, and Negative Dominance
Incompleteness, Independence, and Negative Dominance Open
This paper introduces the axiom of Negative Dominance, stating that if a lottery $f$ is strictly preferred to a lottery $g$, then some outcome in the support of $f$ is strictly preferred to some outcome in the support of $g$. It is shown t…
View article: Fine-grained semantics for attitude reports
Fine-grained semantics for attitude reports Open
I observe that the “concept-generator” theory of Percus and Sauerland (2003) , Anand (2006), and Charlow and Sharvit (2014) does not predict an intuitive true interpretation of the sentence “Plato did not believe that Hesperus was Phosphor…
View article: CAN MODALITIES SAVE NAIVE SET THEORY?
CAN MODALITIES SAVE NAIVE SET THEORY? Open
To the memory of Prof. Grigori Mints, Stanford University Born: June 7, 1939, St. Petersburg, Russia Died: May 29, 2014, Palo Alto, California
View article: Prospects for a Naive Theory of Classes
Prospects for a Naive Theory of Classes Open
The naive theory of properties states that for every condition there is a property instantiated by exactly the things which satisfy that condition. The naive theory of properties is inconsistent in classical logic, but there are many ways …
View article: Standard State Space Models of Unawareness (Extended Abstract)
Standard State Space Models of Unawareness (Extended Abstract) Open
The impossibility theorem of Dekel, Lipman and Rustichini has been thought to demonstrate that standard state-space models cannot be used to represent unawareness. We first show that Dekel, Lipman and Rustichini do not establish this claim…
View article: Standard State Space Models of Unawareness (Extended Abstract)
Standard State Space Models of Unawareness (Extended Abstract) Open
The impossibility theorem of Dekel, Lipman and Rustichini has been thought to demonstrate that standard state-space models cannot be used to represent unawareness. We first show that Dekel, Lipman and Rustichini do not establish this claim…