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A Claude Skill To Comment On Docs — LessWrong
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (316+ words) Detailed instructions to download and use the skill can be found on Github here" Yes, that's a bit tedious. However, I believe that Claude's comments are decent enough to be worth the hassle (this is especially true if you're in…...
A Full Epistemic Stack: Knowledge Commons for the 21st Century — LessWrong
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1469+ words) We're writing this in our personal capacity. While our work at the Future of Life Foundation has recently focused on this topic and informs our thinking here, this specific presentation of our views are our own. Knowledge is integral to…...
Wiki AI — LessWrong
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (413+ words) A thought that has been bouncing around in my head for the last couple years is wikipedia as a motivating metaphor for what LLMs'should become. This is particularly in contrast to social media. I owe this idea to Tom Everitt,…...
Are my Wikitag edits effective? — LessWrong
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (519+ words) Distillation is the process of taking a complex subject, and making it easier to understand. Pedagogy is the method and practice of teaching. A good intellectual pipeline requires not just discovering new ideas, but making it easier for newcomers to…...
Wikipedia, but written by AIs — LessWrong
7+ mon, 5+ day ago (331+ words) I got this crazy idea; I wonder if anyone could try it. Let's make an online encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia, with one difference: all articles would be edited by AIs. Why? (I mean, other than "because it's possible and sounds…...
Mech Interp Wiki Page and Why You Should Edit Wikipedia — LessWrong
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (552+ words) Artificial Intelligence is the study of creating intelligence in algorithms. AI Alignment is the task of ensuring [powerful] AI system are aligned with human values and interests. The central concern is that a powerful enough AI, if not designed and…...
Documents Are Dead. Long Live the Conversational Proxy. — LessWrong
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (171+ words) Sometime in early 2024, I stopped reading books. Not because I don't love the process'but because I realized the alpha/hour ratio was far too low. This flipped a mental switch for me: Documents today aren't messages to be read'they're messengers…...
Behold the Pale Child (escaping Moloch's Mad Maze) — LessWrong
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (1796+ words) Published on May 8, 2025 4:36 PM GMT'Agnus" by Konstantin KorobovI.Bakkalon is a key figure in George R.R. Martin's 1975 short story 'And Seven Times Never Kill Man!".Centuries in the future, humanity had spread to colonies on hundreds of different planets and lived…...