Treat explanations as a starting point

  • When Herk asks whether to trust what an agent teaches, Pocock recommends skepticism and reading the primary source himself. 6:55 7:24
  • His Teach skill fetches high-trust primary sources and explains them with quotations, attribution, and links, giving the learner a way to inspect the evidence. 7:39
  • Pocock says hallucinations have become less frequent in his experience, but still occur. His workflow is to use a teaching session to learn the topic's language, then read the original material for the information he needs. 8:00

A reusable learning sequence

  1. Ask the agent to introduce an unfamiliar topic through high-quality primary sources and linked explanations. 7:39
  2. Use that explanation to build enough vocabulary to understand the original source. 8:00
  3. Read the primary source yourself before relying on the explanation. 7:24 8:00