My next #CogSci paper should be how #LLMs get us from #BoundedReflectivism (https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534) to #StrategicReflectivism.

#AI research shows PRAGMATIC SHIFTING between single (intuitive) and dual (reflective) models outperforms both kinds of model.

#epistemology #PhilMind

#Meta researchers find more support for #BoundedReflectivism: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534

A "slow" transformer model (reasoning chain + solution) outperforms a "fast" (solution only) model, but a dual-minded model that automatically switches between fast and slow modes performs as well as the slow mode, but with fewer reasoning steps — i.e., reflective reasoning was beneficial, but sometimes not worth it: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.09918

#AI #philosophyOfMind #epistemology #LLM

More successful predictions of my #BoundedReflectivism & #EpistemicIdentity article from 2022?

From about 2017 or 2018, I reviewed evidence suggesting that reflective thinking often helps, but may even hinder our judgment depending on factors like whether we are reasoning based on shared identities and epistemic standards (https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534).

Years later Robb Willer et al. solicited ideas for debiasing political judgments. After years of testing 25 different interventions, their results are published in #Science: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh4764

They found that biased evaluations of politicized facts were impacted by both
- REFLECTION (on potential misperceptions of undemocratic actions) and
- shared IDENTITY cues (which could help *or* hinder!)

#decisionScience #politics #psychology #philosophy #epistemology #metaphilosophy #JDM #debiasing #chatBot