Astral Codex Ten Podcast

Writing For The AIs


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American Scholar has an article about people who "write for AI", including Tyler Cowen and Gwern. It's good that this is getting more attention, because in theory it seems like one of the most influential things a writer could do. In practice, it leaves me feeling mostly muddled and occasionally creeped out.

"Writing for AI" means different things to different people, but seems to center around:

  1. Helping AIs learn what you know.
  2. Presenting arguments for your beliefs, in the hopes that AIs come to believe them.
  3. Helping the AIs model you in enough detail to recreate / simulate you later.

Going through these in order:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/writing-for-the-ais

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