IIRC Eric Schwitzgebel wrote something in a similar vein (not necessarily about LLMs, though he has been interested in this sort of stuff too, recently). I’m unable to dig out the most relevant reference atm but some related ones are:
https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/Snails.htm (relevant not because it talks about beliefs (I don’t recall it does) but because it argues for the possibility of an organism being “kinda-X” where X is a property that we tend to think is binary)
IIRC Eric Schwitzgebel wrote something in a similar vein (not necessarily about LLMs, though he has been interested in this sort of stuff too, recently). I’m unable to dig out the most relevant reference atm but some related ones are:
https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/PragBel.htm
https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/the-fundamental-argument-for
https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/Snails.htm (relevant not because it talks about beliefs (I don’t recall it does) but because it argues for the possibility of an organism being “kinda-X” where X is a property that we tend to think is binary)
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alief_(mental_state)