01Our claims
Instruments to augment human intelligence.
Machines are becoming first-class actors in the world. Civilization’s infrastructure for knowing — interfaces, philosophies, and intuitions — must be augmented to realize this transition and empower humans.
The Pingback’s mission is to expand what one can know, towards a civilization that never forgets.
02Our grounds
What does knowing require of what we build?
These are questions of applied epistemology, where we live.
- Where does justification stop, and why there?The regress problem
- Why expect the future to resemble the past?David Hume, 1748
- When is believing what you’re told rational?David Hume · Thomas Reid
- How can a novice tell real expertise apart?Alvin Goldman, 2001
- Who gets believed, and who gets wrongly doubted?Miranda Fricker, 2007
- Can an instrument testify, or only a person?Ori Freiman & Boaz Miller, 2020
- Can you understand a system you cannot inspect?Paul Humphreys · Emily Sullivan