Archive - Humble Knowledge

Fire up our imaginations to improve scientific research

Modern research methods and incentives are making profound new discoveries less likely. We need to think and work differently.

Jul 10

June 2025

Failures of imagination are driving us apart

For stronger communities and cohesion, we need to build our imaginations

Jun 27

Lacking certainty? Then go faster

Epistemic uncertainty should drive decision making behaviour in the opposite direction to normal practices

Jun 6

May 2025

Again, do LLMs really know things?

Continuing the discussion about whether LLMs have genuine knowledge

May 23

Large Language Epistemology

Do LLMs know anything? And what does that tell us about their reliability as a guide to truth?

May 8

April 2025

Learning about knowledge from toddlers

The instincts of little children teach us something important about where reliable knowledge comes from.

Apr 24

Humans were destined to fight online

The epistemology we built the digital world with cannot survive the reality of human knowledge and discussion

Apr 17

March 2025

Thinking too generally

Some recent results in physics force us to recognise more limits on what we can know

Mar 27

Minimal conceptions of reality

We don't need to understand what is really real to be able to build knowledge.

Mar 13

February 2025

Informed about Information

When we talk about 'information' we aren't all talking about the same thing

Feb 27

A diversity of epistemic communities

An initial typology of how groups function around building and spreading knowledge

Feb 14

January 2025

The question of second hand knowledge

What does knowledge look like when we avoid philosophical stereotypes and start thinking about the social dynamics of knowledge?

Jan 31

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