Sense making

How do we make sense of our complex world? Check out https://wikisim.org - let's make sense of chaos

AI Test #1 - How many UK Neurologists do we need for Multiple Sclerosis?

This is a new series where I'll compare AI (LLM) performance for questions related to public policy.

AI Test #1 - How many UK Neurologists do we need for Multiple Sclerosis?

AJP (James Phillips)|February 21, 2026

What is WikiSim?

WikiSim is not like any website I know of. The best description I've got so far is "A Public Commons for Democratic Sense-Making"... I'm sure there's a better way to describe it and I'm open to suggestions!

AJP (James Phillips)|February 21, 2026

Who's Strengthening Our Democracy - and How Do We Join Forces?

I want us to collectively flourish; for that to happen our democracies require good leadership, informed citizens, and active work to renew and upgrade our democratic sense-making.

Who's Strengthening Our Democracy - and How Do We Join Forces?

AJP (James Phillips)|February 18, 2026

Connect or Collect Data?

Should WikiSim connect to data rather than collect it?

AJP (James Phillips)|January 25, 2026

Conversation Upgrade #1 - GBP to EUR exchange rate around Brexit

¹ I aim for Conversation upgrades and WikiSim.org to be exploring how the digital tools / mediums we're using can be improved. As leaflet.pub is focused on a standard blogging experience as both reader and writer, it's understandable that it can't and shouldn't support all the functionality / modalities of the articles I'm wanting to write. So going forward there may be many articles that just get a stub link posted here.

AJP (James Phillips)|January 06, 2026

Conversation Upgrades

All conversations have a seed of something interesting, but not all reach their full potential. Some instead devolve into name calling ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, motte-and-bailey doctrine etc. or contain logical errors, a lack of references to validate claims. Even when conversations are conducted in good faith they can often fail to define their terms and spend the whole conversations talking at cross purposes.

AJP (James Phillips)|January 06, 2026

What are good conversations?

A first pass at mapping out what makes good conversations

AJP (James Phillips)|January 06, 2026

Sub-citations for efficient recall and validation of references

We already use sub-citations for books and legal documents, why not academic / scientific papers?

Sub-citations for efficient recall and validation of references

AJP (James Phillips)|December 30, 2025

Thoughts on "What can one person do?"

Direct your strengths at the oppressor's weakest points to maximise true happiness for everyone.

AJP (James Phillips)|December 20, 2025

Thoughts on "Dear ACM, you're doing AI wrong but you can still get it right"

*edit* on re-reading this it sounds a bit curt, rest assured it's not meant to be! I think Anil's article is great, I'm just curious & being brief.

AJP (James Phillips)|December 18, 2025

Opportunity / Problem Statements Repository for Collective Flourishing

Inspired by the climate biotechnology problem statement repository from @homeworld.bsky.social, and various conversations with folks working in the broad Collective Flourishing space, here is a proposal for a similar repository of opportunity / problem statements.

AJP (James Phillips)|December 14, 2025

How to unify conflicting perspectives - v2

Some initial thoughts on how one or more people can unify their conflicting perspectives.

AJP (James Phillips)|December 08, 2025