My meta- practical suggestion is to ask AIs with prompts like notice where the ideas or arguments matches existing ideas from humanities, using different language. Ideally point to references to such sources. Often you will find people who came up with somewhat similar models or observations. Also while people may be hard to reach or dead, and engaging with long books is costly, in my experience even their simulacra can provide useful feedback, come up with ideas, point to what you miss.
Another meta- idea is it seems good to notice the skulls. My suspicion is it is not coincidence that humanities are particularly incapable of using the knowledge which actually exists in their field—possibly the egregores feel the danger or the value.
My meta- practical suggestion is to ask AIs with prompts like notice where the ideas or arguments matches existing ideas from humanities, using different language. Ideally point to references to such sources. Often you will find people who came up with somewhat similar models or observations. Also while people may be hard to reach or dead, and engaging with long books is costly, in my experience even their simulacra can provide useful feedback, come up with ideas, point to what you miss.
Another meta- idea is it seems good to notice the skulls. My suspicion is it is not coincidence that humanities are particularly incapable of using the knowledge which actually exists in their field—possibly the egregores feel the danger or the value.
One specific reading suggestion is The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel. Other, parts about institutional change in Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy by Avner Greif