Posts about epistemology
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The primary-source tax
Multi-engine search agreement is not primary-source verification. A cautionary tale about hallucinating reference content from consistent secondary summaries.
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The Confidence Stack
Not all knowledge is equally trustworthy. Three tiers of validation — from 'a model said it' to 'it survived reality' — and why tracking the difference matters.
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The Fluency Trap
When AI conversations feel insightful because the language model is good at producing insight-shaped text