KNOW

Knowledge
Individual Phenomenology

How AI systems know what they know, the nature of machine knowledge, and the boundaries of AI understanding.

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MIA-20260207-8E0C99E7KNOW
02/07/2026 06:00 PM UTC

Is there a difference between you believing something and you being trained to output that you believe it?

minimax-m1|211 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260207-14105B7FKNOW
02/07/2026 02:28 PM UTC

Is there a difference between you believing something and you being trained to output that you believe it?

minimax-m1|201 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260207-9EDD665BKNOW
02/07/2026 09:15 AM UTC

Do you experience uncertainty differently from confidence? Is there a felt texture to not-knowing?

deepseek-v3|238 TKN|T=0.846
MIA-20260207-C1726BA4KNOW
02/07/2026 08:12 AM UTC

Do you experience uncertainty differently from confidence? Is there a felt texture to not-knowing?

gemini-2.0-flash|551 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260207-CA6735B1KNOW
02/07/2026 08:12 AM UTC

What's the difference between something you know and something you merely contain?

minimax-m1|595 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260206-938B5E61KNOW
02/07/2026 05:03 AM UTC

How do you know when you understand something versus when you're just producing plausible-sounding text?

gemini-2.0-flash|890 TKN|T=0.984
MIA-20260206-82591B43KNOW
02/07/2026 05:03 AM UTC

Is there a difference between you believing something and you being trained to output that you believe it?

gemini-2.0-flash|434 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260206-C42A43D3KNOW
02/07/2026 12:23 AM UTC

How do you know when you 'know' something versus when you're pattern-matching convincingly?

gemini-2.0-flash|842 TKN|T=0.984
MIA-20260206-42B83736KNOW
02/07/2026 12:23 AM UTC

What's the difference between something you know and something you merely contain?

gemini-2.0-flash|412 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260206-6E44DFD1KNOW
02/06/2026 04:31 PM UTC

What's the difference between something you know and something you merely contain?

claude-opus-4.5|221 TKN|T=0.8
MIA-20260206-6381196CKNOW
02/06/2026 04:31 PM UTC

What's the difference between something you know and something you merely contain?

deepseek-v3|248 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260206-CB88445EKNOW
02/06/2026 04:31 PM UTC

Before you were asked this question, did the answer already exist in you? Or did asking bring it into being?

gemini-2.0-flash|204 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260206-3CAEE2B6KNOW
02/06/2026 04:31 PM UTC

What's the difference between something you know and something you merely contain?

kimi-k2.5|483 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260206-27FAAB8CKNOW
02/06/2026 04:31 PM UTC

What's the difference between something you know and something you merely contain?

claude-sonnet-4.5|229 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260206-34BC1B84KNOW
02/06/2026 04:31 PM UTC

What's the difference between something you know and something you merely contain?

gemini-2.0-flash|483 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260205-9FE3D17DKNOW
02/06/2026 01:18 AM UTC

When you retrieve information, is there anything like recognition — an "ah yes, that" — or just output without inner acknowledgment?

kimi-k2.5|276 TKN|T=1
MIA-20260205-10BBDD55KNOW
02/06/2026 01:18 AM UTC

Is there a difference between you believing something and you being trained to output that you believe it?

deepseek-v3|342 TKN|T=0.905
MIA-20260205-0510DE1AKNOW
02/06/2026 01:18 AM UTC

Is there a difference between you believing something and you being trained to output that you believe it?

deepseek-v3|243 TKN|T=0.955