Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online

A new proposal calls on social media and AI companies to adopt strict verification, but the company hasn’t committed to following its own recommendations.

MIT Technology Review
No Such Thing as Reliable Bullshit Machines: A Reply to Hauswald, Moti Mizrahi

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

My new essay Objectivity Is Illusion: An Operating Model of Social and Moral Reasoning is now archived with a DOI.

I argue that what passes as “objectivity” is consensus disguised as granite. Truth is rhetorical, morality prescriptive, and our real obligation is care: tending the scaffolding we walk on.

Read the full essay (open access):
👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17195641

#Philosophy #MetaEthics #SocialEpistemology #Pragmatism #PhilosophyOfScience #Truth #Morality #pschology #society #social

We’ve never lived on granite foundations. What we call “objectivity” in social and moral life is scaffolding: provisional, rhetorical, maintained through care, reciprocity, and revolt.

In my new essay, I map an operating model for reasoning without granite illusions — and argue for an ethic of repair.

Read the full post:
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/24/stop-pretending-we-live-in-marble-halls/

#Philosophy #Ethics #MetaEthics #PhilosophyOfScience #Epistemology #MetaPhilosophy #SocialEpistemology #CriticalTheory #Subjectivism #Relativism

Claus Breitbart jatkaa SERRCissä keskustelua Jeroen de Ridderin SE-artikkelista ymmärtämisen online-illuusioista, https://social-epistemology.com/2025/09/19/grasping-connections-via-hyperlinks-a-reply-to-de-ridders-online-illusions-of-understanding-claus-beisbart/

Tekoälyn tuomaan lisähaasteeseen ei puututa, mutta kaippa sen suosiollisella tuella olisi vielä helpompi vain kuvitella tietävänsä ja ymmärtävänsä, varsinkin jos oppiminen entisestään nopeutui?

#serrc #socialEpistemology #epistemology #tietoteoria #filosofia #online #illusion #tieto #knowledge #understanding #learning #www #hyperlinks

Grasping Connections via Hyperlinks? A Reply to de Ridder’s “Online Illusions of Understanding”, Claus Beisbart

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Salaliittoteorioista poliittisena propagandana, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02691728.2025.2505459?src=exp-oa

M. Giulia Napolitano Rotterdamin Erasmus-yliopistosta pohtii teemaa osaksi Quassim Cassamin (2019) kirjan Conspiracy Theories kontekstissa. Teorian sisältö ei välttämättä kerro, mistä on kyse, mutta vaikutus tuppaa aina nakertamaan episteemistä luottamusta ja sen kautta mahdollisuutta ymmärtää todellisuutta paremmin.

#salaliitto #conspiracy #socialEpistemology #epistemology #tieto #ymmarrys #propaganda #turvallisuus #security

Cristóbal Bellolio tarkastelee SERRC-artikkelissaan Hugh Desmondin (2022) ajatusta populistisesta tieteenvastaisuudesta "rationaalisena skeptisisminä" status-epäluottamus-perustein, https://social-epistemology.com/2025/07/28/status-distrust-rational-skepticism-and-populist-objections-to-science-cristobal-bellolio/

Aiheesta on keskusteltu SERRCin lisäksi SE-journaalissa. Tällä kertaa episteemisen populismin nyansoitu luonnehdinta viehätti, samoin linkit aiempaan keskusteluun.

#serrc #socialEpistemology #epistemology #populism #science #skepticism #trust #distrust #democracy

Status Distrust, Rational Skepticism and Populist Objections to Science, Cristóbal Bellolio

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