Humble Knowledge

The Tangle of Swarm Governance

Governing via digital and analogue algorithms often fails as it leaves no-one accountable

Jul 31

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Strong evidence for policy decisions

We are often reminded to pay attention to the evidence, but don't think about what good evidence looks like

Jul 16

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Follow the evidence and you might get lost

Evidence for public policy has limitations, and we need to be wise to them

Jul 9

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June 2026

Critical thinking is not such a useful skill

Our attitudes matter more than our reasoning skills

Jun 26

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Maths is built on concepts, all the way down

Some of us think numbers are just concepts, but even then we have differences

Jun 12

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April 2026

Can we infer how the world works from text alone?

Reflections on LLMs and their reliability as a guide to truth

Apr 10

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March 2026

A mystery behind human thought and knowledge

Or why AI will never be the same as human intelligence

Mar 20

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Seeing like a human

Human experience is innately structured in a way foreign to AI systems

Mar 6

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February 2026

World models and AI: Mission impossible?

A natural next step in improving LLMs and generative AI may turn out to be a dead end

Feb 19

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AI acknowledges its intellectual limitations, and gets smarter

Reflections on the success of Claude Code and other AI coding tools

Feb 5

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January 2026

The mismatch between sentence and reality

Or what we can learn from the Liar Paradox

Jan 22

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Facing the facts about humility

Being humble about what we know recognises the truth of human experience

Jan 9

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