METHOD

Epistemic status

Every rendered page separates confidence from authorship.

A claim can be low-confidence and human-written, or high-confidence and AI-assisted. Those are different questions, so the site reports them independently.

Confidence

Brain categoryBeliefMeaning
#shower-thought1/5Thought about briefly; low confidence.
#guru1/5Highly speculative; be skeptical.
#schroedinger-uncertain2/5Low confidence after some thought and learning.
#socratic4/5Reachable through logic and Socratic questioning.
#godel-uncertain4/5High confidence, but fundamentally uncertain.
#lindy-proof4/5Supported by having survived over time.
#floating-point-error4.99/5Very high confidence, short of absolute certainty.

#unspecified means the private source did not record a confidence category. It is not a claim of neutrality or certainty.

Authorship and AI

  • #non-biological / AI-generated: the private source says AI produced more than 75% of the text.
  • #human-in-the-loop / AI-assisted: the private source says AI produced less than 50% of the text.
  • Likely human: no AI marker is present and the source existed before public ChatGPT. This is evidence, not proof, because earlier models existed.
  • Unknown provenance: no reliable authorship record exists. The site refuses to guess.
  • Imported excerpts: quotations belong to the named author. Selection does not imply endorsement or completion.
  • System-generated: the page is an index or visualization assembled from already-published material.

Important boundary

Mechanical Markdown or HTML generation does not make prose AI-generated. Likewise, AI-generated tags do not make the underlying note AI-authored. Only explicit provenance or defensible history changes an authorship label.

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