A formal definition of ‘common knowledge’ or ‘common sense’? “Anything that would be regarded as true by a language model trained on the Common Crawl dataset”.

A formal definition of ‘common knowledge’ or ‘common sense’? “Anything that would be regarded as true by a language model trained on the Common Crawl dataset”. Be an interesting philosophical position to test out in, say, a judicial setting. We could replace the legal concept of a ‘reasonable person’ with ‘a language model with its temperature set to a reasonable level’. And perhaps instead of a jury of your peers, the fairest way to reach a verdict would be to present the facts of a case to a large language model, and ask it ’guilty or not guilty?’ twelve times..