5 papers
Epistemic Networks, Collective Misperception, and the Manipulation of Social Knowledge
Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Joel A. C. Baum
We investigate the structure of interactive beliefs in networks: the epistemic state in which agents hold, revise, and act on their models of the epistemic states of other agents.…
Trust and Its Betrayal under Three Representational Strategies
Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Joel A. C. Baum
Trust is a propositional attitude of a distinctive kind: to trust is to rely on another under conditions where reliance could be disappointed, and the disappointment of trust---bet…
Adversarial Social Epistemology for Assemblies of Humans and Large Language Models
Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Joel A. C. Baum
We outline an adversarial social epistemology (ASE) for densely interactive communicative landscapes in which public assertions are scaffolded by chains of testimony, inference, in…
Knowledge, Trust, Security and Covertness In Massively Distributed Social Platforms: An Epistemic Networks Approach
Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Joel A. C. Baum
Social networks seeded, crystallized and structured by large-scale social platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and WeChat exhibit complicated epis…
Epistemic Networks
Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Joel A. C. Baum
We show how important phenomena in social networks like coordination, trust and the communication of unsubstantiated information (gossip) can be modelled and understood using epist…