HYPER-EXTERNALIST MANIFESTO FOR LLMs-3.pdf - Google Drive
3 Our goal here is not to convince the reader that externalism itself is true; for arguments supporting the core externalist theses, one should consult the extensive existing literature. 2 For examples of papers where the authors seem to be unaware of the externalist tradition (or aware of it, but don’t see its relevance to LLMs), see e.g., Bender and Koller (2020), Bisk et. al (2020), Vallor (2024) and Mollo and Millière (2023). 1 Recent discussions, some explicitly pursuing themes from our 2021, some pursuing closely related research projects, include Piantadosi and Hill (2022), Mandelkern and Linzen (2023), Lake and Murphy (2023), Mollo and Millière (2023), Millière (2024), Lederman and Mahowald (2024), Ostertag (2025) and Koch (forthcoming). 2 Evansian dominant sources, or teleofunctional roles can ground meaning in systems lacking human-like intentions or biological evolution. This is all a work in progress, and for each illustration we end with a ToDo List. Second, and more ambit