Welcome to Learning From Examples
Learning From Examples traces the history of knowing. Written by Harry Law, a historian of science and former Google DeepMind researcher, it’s appeared in places like The Guardian, Vox, and Marginal Revolution.
A history newsletter about the future
This newsletter is about the long dialogue between science, philosophy, technology, and culture. From Aristotle to artificial intelligence, my writing is motivated by the cultural residue of progress and how the patterns of the past shape our relationship with the future.
I’m interested in how people, especially scientists and researchers, come to know things. For the most part, that involves seeing frontier AI through a historical and philosophical lens to contribute, in a small way, to understanding the field’s ways of generating and making sense of knowledge.
About Harry Law
I lead research at the Cosmos Institute. Before that, I spent my time reading and writing my way through a PhD at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. I’ve also been a researcher at Google DeepMind and a postgraduate fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Thanks to the support of Emergent Ventures, I’m pursuing a writing project about the history of AI.
My portfolio is here, my personal website is here, and my academic page is here. Feel free to get in touch with me at hswlaw [at] protonmail [dot] com if you want to chat. You can also catch me on LinkedIn and X.
