Ill-Posed

blog — Proofs and Prompts — 27 Sep 2026

Knowing vs. Understanding: Humans and Machines in Puzzle-land

#mechanistic-interpretability #philosophy-of-mathematics #cognitive-science

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We can use puzzles as a philosophical playground to think about the nature of insight, and compare human and artificial approaches. And we can explore what understanding means to us as human beings—both when we struggle toward it ourselves, and when we share it with each other.

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