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Most large language models default to interpreting words like “yeah” as affirmative. This seems statistically reasonable - until you realize that in human language, “yeah” can also mean no, sarcasm, defeat, reluctance, or even nothing. This is a surface symptom of a deeper issue: the tendency in AI development to...

Reading discussions around Gettier cases, JTB, fallibilism, etc., started feeling like watching the same idea circle itself with slightly fancier synonyms. At some point you have to ask: What are we actually trying to determine? If “knowledge” can’t exist without a perfectly objective observer, which does not exist, but every...