Humble Knowledge

Teaching humans and training AI

Reflection on education philosophies and the ways we train LLMs

Oct 3

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September 2025

Can an AI have beliefs?

Looking more at ways an AI is, and isn't, like a human

Sep 4

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August 2025

Which parts of AI systems are the sources for information?

We need to look more closely at the 'who' in an LLM we are treating as a reliable source of information

Aug 15

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On the psychological impacts of information online

Drawing ideas from the work of Jacques Ellul

Aug 1

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July 2025

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

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June 2025

Failures of imagination are driving us apart

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

Jun 27

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Lacking certainty? Then go faster

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

Jun 6

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May 2025

Again, do LLMs really know things?

Continuing the discussion about whether LLMs have genuine knowledge

May 23

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Large Language Epistemology

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

May 8

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April 2025

Learning about knowledge from toddlers

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

Apr 24

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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

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March 2025

Thinking too generally

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

Mar 27

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