Knowledge and Memory
September 6, 2025 The other day, I asked Claude how to do something using a particular Ruby library, and it hallucinated three nonexistent methods in a row. We can ask “why do language models do this?” but/and we can also ask, “why doesn’t Robin do this?” I think it’s because I don’t only know things: I remember learning them. My knowledge is sedimentary, and I can “feel” the position and solidity of different facts and ideas in that mass. I can feel, too, the airy disconnect of