Seems reasonable split, although I try to gesture at / share compressed versions of the background knowledge.
A system I’d like to see in this domain is a system tracking my personal knowledge state, and explaining the diffs / updates relative not to what the author assumes, but for me personally. (I often find reading popular non-fiction mildly annoying; I get that authors need to start from a limited common denominator and can’t count on readers understanding statistics, econ, maths, ML, epistemology, linear algebra, quantum mechanics, etc etc but this usually means the actually interesting part is like ~5% of the text + same idea repeated 3 more times → LMs help with this)
Seems reasonable split, although I try to gesture at / share compressed versions of the background knowledge.
Yeah, I asked for this split precisely because, usually with a LessWrong post I already have at least the gist of the background knowledge, and what I really want to know is “what is the new stuff here?”.
But yeah I like the dream of “keep track of the stuff you know, and explain the diff between what you know.” But I think for the immediate future, being able to see at a glance “okay, what background context might I not have that, if I’m lost, I might want to read up on separately?”
Seems reasonable split, although I try to gesture at / share compressed versions of the background knowledge.
A system I’d like to see in this domain is a system tracking my personal knowledge state, and explaining the diffs / updates relative not to what the author assumes, but for me personally. (I often find reading popular non-fiction mildly annoying; I get that authors need to start from a limited common denominator and can’t count on readers understanding statistics, econ, maths, ML, epistemology, linear algebra, quantum mechanics, etc etc but this usually means the actually interesting part is like ~5% of the text + same idea repeated 3 more times → LMs help with this)
Yeah, I asked for this split precisely because, usually with a LessWrong post I already have at least the gist of the background knowledge, and what I really want to know is “what is the new stuff here?”.
But yeah I like the dream of “keep track of the stuff you know, and explain the diff between what you know.” But I think for the immediate future, being able to see at a glance “okay, what background context might I not have that, if I’m lost, I might want to read up on separately?”