Show HN: Philosophy for Kids

[rahimnathwani]

https://philosophy.ocaho.com/

Sometimes my son asks me 'why' questions that could be answered well by a kid-friendly philosophy article. But I don't know where to find those, so I ask Claude or ChatGPT, and have a specific workflow for getting the type of output I want.

I figured other people might find those AI-generated articles helpful, so I put them here: https://philosophy.ocaho.com/

There's a search box at the top.

[jamwise]

Really great idea. And not going to ding it for kicking off with an LLM. But it might be worth thinking about how you could build a community of human contributors in a future stage. I personally don't feel comfortable with handing AI-generated stuff over to the kids in my life, and I imagine that would be a big barrier for your project as many others share this sentiment. That's a shame because encouraging kids to think deeply from a young age is something I would deeply support.

There are tons of knowledgeable teachers out there, and they are very often motivated to help the next generations thrive and grow beyond their day job. I'm sure you could find people to help with editorial work on this version to give it a human stamp of approval, and involve the many talented and inspiring educators and communicators that are out there to help grow this into a true value for the next generation.

Either way. Good luck!

[rahimnathwani → jamwise]

Thanks for the encouragement. And you are 100% correct about how most people perceive AI-written content.

Separately, I wonder whether you'd find something like this more trustworthy: https://kidsdiscover.com/shop/issues/roman-empire-for-kids/

And, if so, what signals do you think makes it more trustworthy in your eyes?

[Xotic007]

good idea however AI can be confidently wrong sometimes so how do you catch that?

[rahimnathwani → Xotic007]

OP here.

Great question. Thankfully most of the topics I'm covering here are well covered by trusted sources that are freely available on the internet. This is particularly true about dates (e.g. when a particular philosopher died). Separately, many of the articles are less about the specific history of each topic, but about how the topics fit together and what you as a reader might like to think about as a result. These parts aren't stating facts (which can be true or untrue) but explaining that there's a different way to look at something (which is matter of opinion or perspective).