The intended understanding of those words was “I knew almost nothing about this subject when I started researching this, and used LLMs to find most of the stuff I read to write this post.” If there’s an expert on solar flare grid reliability on LessWrong, I would very much appreciate they write a post about it—the reason I wrote this in the first place is because, given the breadth of the estimated disaster and the likelihood past studies have attributed to solar storms (e.g. Lloyd’s), it seemed weird to me that LW was lacking a post trying to get to the bottom of this. Note I don’t think I would’ve made fewer errors in this post had I relied on Google to find sources instead. I think my mistake was not emailing any experts at all, despite that being an available move.
The intended understanding of those words was “I knew almost nothing about this subject when I started researching this, and used LLMs to find most of the stuff I read to write this post.” If there’s an expert on solar flare grid reliability on LessWrong, I would very much appreciate they write a post about it—the reason I wrote this in the first place is because, given the breadth of the estimated disaster and the likelihood past studies have attributed to solar storms (e.g. Lloyd’s), it seemed weird to me that LW was lacking a post trying to get to the bottom of this. Note I don’t think I would’ve made fewer errors in this post had I relied on Google to find sources instead. I think my mistake was not emailing any experts at all, despite that being an available move.