In SERRC Moti Mizrahi reiterates his argument that LLM's are bullshit-machines, not reliable epistemic sources worthy of epistemic respect,

https://social-epistemology.com/2026/03/06/no-such-thing-as-reliable-bullshit-machines-a-reply-to-hauswald-moti-mizrahi/

#llm #llms #ai #epistemology #serrc #argument #epistemic #reliable #reliability #chatgpt #bullshit #socialEpistemology #social

Climate ML should not just predict - it should admit uncertainty. This guide shows how to separate #Epistemic vs #Aleatoric uncertainty, run #MCDropout, add Bayesian layers, and check calibration in #PyTorch for climate projections.

Read the full article: https://codelabsacademy.com/en/blog/uncertainty-quantification-climate-neural-networks-bayesian-layers-mc-dropout?source=mastodon

#ClimateTech #MachineLearning

Jonathan Ichikawa has revised his and Steup's SEP-entry on the analysis of knowledge, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/

#sep #knowledge #epistemology #epistemic #justification #truth #philosophy #revised #update #concept #analysis

SERRCissä näkyyvaikka mitä ajattelun väärtiä, https://social-epistemology.com/, mutta on jo myöhä (ainakin jossain).

#serrc #social #epistemology #socialEpistemology #epistemic #hubris #intellectual #virtues #expertise #europe #ontology #morality #suicide #self #compromise

#Epistemic minorities in health journalism

A minority is not always a person or community. Sometimes, minority is a certain way of seeing, a critical theory that is overlooked or silenced.

Both scientists and #journalists seek the truth. But truth is caught between a rock and a hard place. We are facing both post-truth & scientific essentialism.

As an antidote, we need a new narrative, 6W + 1H, on evidence frameworks in journalism that expands on the classic 5W + 1H.

https://www.duvarenglish.com/opinion/2020/07/04/meet-the-new-minority-the-truth/

Can the scientific practice of #KnowingMicrobes rely on inquiry and interdependence instead of control?

Read the study by @heymayahey on fermentation as an #epistemic practice in a #sake #brewery in #Japan: https://doi.org/pzvq

#makingspaceforMicrobes