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Socratic Dialogue

How LearnLock challenges your understanding through adversarial interrogation.

The Socratic Method

Instead of lecturing, the teacher asks probing questions that expose contradictions and gaps in the student's thinking. LearnLock implements this through the Duel Engine.

How It Works

You explain a concept in your own words
The engine infers what you believe
It compares your belief against ground truth claims
It finds contradictions and attacks the weakest point
After 3 turns (or success), it reveals your belief trajectory
Your score feeds into SM-2 spaced repetition scheduling

Dialogue Flow

Challenge: What problem does self-attention solve?

You: It helps focus on important parts.

Attack: That's vague. WHY is focusing necessary? What limitation does it overcome?

You: RNNs have the bottleneck problem where information gets compressed...

Attack: Good. But what about training speed? You mentioned nothing about parallelization.

You: Attention allows parallel computation across all positions...

Reveal: ████░ Good (4/5) — Trajectory: vague → partial → solid

Engine Behaviors

Vague answers → trigger mechanism probes
Wrong answers → trigger claim-specific attacks
"I don't know" → triggers guiding questions (not punishment)
Correct answers → pass after verification
3 turns exhausted → reveal with full trajectory

Good vs Bad Explanations

❌ Bad (triggers attack)

"Attention helps the model focus on important things."

→ Superficial. No mechanism. Will be probed.

✓ Good (passes)

"Self-attention computes weighted relationships between all positions simultaneously. Unlike RNNs that compress into a fixed hidden state, attention directly connects any two positions, enabling parallel training and avoiding the information bottleneck."

Tip: Double Enter

Press Enter twice to send your answer. This lets you write multi-line explanations.

Spaced Repetition