parse-review-defaults-to-passing
IN premise
`parse_review_response` defaults missing fields to valid=True, sufficient=True, necessary=True, unnecessary_antecedents=[] — the LLM only needs to report failures explicitly; omission means the belief passed.
Summary
When the system asks an LLM to review a belief, the parsing logic treats silence as approval. If the LLM's response doesn't explicitly flag a problem with validity, sufficiency, or necessity, the belief is assumed to have passed review on those dimensions. This means the LLM only needs to speak up about failures, which simplifies the expected response format but also means a malformed or incomplete LLM response will be interpreted as a clean bill of health.
Details
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