large language models

Does ChatGPT Undermine Human Epistemic Authority? A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Artificial Intelligence's Challenge to Knowledge Systems

The emergence of ChatGPT and similar large language models has precipitated fundamental questions about the nature and distribution of epistemic authority in contemporary knowledge systems. This comprehensive analysis examines whether ChatGPT undermines human epistemic authority through a multi-dimensional theoretical...

When Does State-Law Co-Determination Have Physical Content? Fixed-Point Representations, No-Signalling, and Model Discrimination

Proposals that physical states and laws jointly determine one another are often presented through fixed-point equations. Yet any ordinary fixed-law theory can be rewritten in joint fixed-point form by adding a constant law-update map. Fixed-point form alone therefore carries neither empirical content nor a distinctive...

When Does State-Law Co-Determination Have Physical Content? Fixed-Point Representations, No-Signalling, and Model Discrimination

Proposals that physical states and laws jointly determine one another are often presented through fixed-point equations. Yet any ordinary fixed-law theory can be rewritten in joint fixed-point form by adding a constant law-update map. Fixed-point form alone therefore carries neither empirical content nor a distinctive...

The Cascade of Consequences: A Comprehensive Assessment of American Foreign Aid Cuts to Africa and Their Systemic Implications for Global Development Architecture

The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in early 2025, representing an 83% reduction in American foreign assistance to Africa, constitutes one of the most significant shifts in global development architecture since the establishment of the post-World War II international order....

The Cascade of Consequences: A Comprehensive Assessment of American Foreign Aid Cuts to Africa and Their Systemic Implications for Global Development Architecture

The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in early 2025, representing an 83% reduction in American foreign assistance to Africa, constitutes one of the most significant shifts in global development architecture since the establishment of the post-World War II international order....

Joint State-Law Fixed Points in Quantum Theory: Recursive Dynamics, Bifurcations, and Renormalization-Group Deformations

This article develops a joint state-law fixed-point method for self-consistent quantum models. A physical model is represented by a density operator and a finite-dimensional vector of effective law parameters; admissible dynamics consist of a state-update channel and a law-update map. A recursive solution is their join...

Joint State-Law Fixed Points in Quantum Theory: Recursive Dynamics, Bifurcations, and Renormalization-Group Deformations

This article develops a joint state-law fixed-point method for self-consistent quantum models. A physical model is represented by a density operator and a finite-dimensional vector of effective law parameters; admissible dynamics consist of a state-update channel and a law-update map. A recursive solution is their join...

The Autonomy Externality: A Welfare-Economic Model of Agentic Artificial Intelligence, Correlated Failure, and Optimal Assurance Policy

Agentic artificial intelligence is shifting automation from prediction and recommendation toward autonomous execution. This transition creates an economic externality that is not captured by conventional firm-level investment models. A firm receives much of the productivity benefit from delegating decisions to an artif...

Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs)

This introductory book explains the scientific and engineering principles that underpin modern Large Language Models (LLMs). It is intentionally technology-neutral: commercial systems such as ChatGPT are presented only as examples illustrating broader concepts rather than as the subject of the book. The primary objecti...

moBERTo: A Modern Encoder for Portuguese via Continued Pretraining of ModernBERT

Assessing Individual Differences in Adult Theory of Mind Through Mental State Language: Human and Artificial Intelligence Approaches.

Fine-tuned transformers and open-source generative large language models reliably replicated human coding of mental state language, enabling scalable assessment and offering promising initial construct-validity evidence for mental state language as a measure of theory of mind.

EvoLLM v3.0 — Phase 3 registered mixed-model tournament: receipts, analyses and post hoc audit

Replication package for Phase 3 of the EvoLLM project: a tournament between 572 strategy identities written by eight large language models (iterated prisoner's dilemma, 1,000 rounds, no noise), registered on OSF (https://osf.io/2nzdh) before execution. It contains the frozen protocol commit 18cb41744f3f1e66fe711aad0969...