Fact checking Moravec's paradox

What Theory is Not, Theorizing Is

Reconciling truthfulness and relevance as epistemic and decision-theoretic utility.

Don't Just Fact-Check Misinformation. First, Understand The Value It Holds. A Conversation w Researchers Michael Simeone & Kristy Roschke

Podcast Episode · Why Should I Trust You? · June 25 · 1h 7m

We're not taking the fact-checking powers of AI seriously enough. It's past time to start.

Some notes on the Nobel Prize hallucination that wasn't

Epistemic Infrastructure: Building Shared Truth in an Era of Disaggregation

The Construct of Collective Perception

A quote by Garry Kasparov

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

The Source of Truth Problem is Getting Worse with Agents — Tonk

Intelligence depends on knowledge, but in practice that knowledge is fragmented across tools, people, and formats, creating conflicting versions of reality. What if we accepted that knowledge lives at the edge and focused instead on effectively sharing it?

The social media context interferes with truth discernment

Simply considering whether to share news on social media reduces the extent to which people discriminate truth from falsehood.

Pluralistic: The difference between “today’s task” and “accretive work” (02 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's two things*."

Pluralistic: The difference between “today’s task” and “accretive work” (02 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's two things*."

Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology

Abstract. This book concerns the role others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world. Two main forms of this reliance are examined: testimon

A Knowledge Commons for the 21st Century

Truth-seeking infrastructure at scale

Science rightly impinges on Virtue Ethics

Iris Murdoch, C. P. Snow, Alasdair MacIntyre, and the role of Truth

Free Speech on the Internet: The Crisis of Epistemic Authority

Abstract. Much of our knowledge of the world comes not from direct sensory experience, but from reliance on epistemic authorities: individuals or institutions that tell us what we ought to believe. For example, what most of us believe about natural selection, climate change, or the Holocaust comes from our reliance on epistemic authorities (scientists, historians). Sustaining epistemic authority depends, crucially, on social institutions that inculcate reliable second-order norms about whom to believe about what. The traditional media were crucial, in the age of mass democracy, with promulgating and sustaining such norms. The internet has obliterated the intermediaries who made that possible, and, in the process, undermined the epistemic standing of actual experts. This essay considers some possible changes to existing free speech doctrine to remedy the epistemological crisis brought about by the internet.

A result does not tell you how it was made - Sensemaker

A correct formula can have an unverified origin, and a successful AI answer can hide a forbidden route. Those claims need different evidence.