This post went through multiple AI fact-checkers! Clearly that was not sufficient. I think the comments are right that for questions involving a lot of physics I should’ve gone to human experts (am slowly drafting a version involving them rn). Unsure an AI fact-checker would solve much of anything; at least, it would not have prevented this post from being automatically promoted to frontpage.
(I didn’t pull the post down because I think the core of the post still stands, and I suppose it’s also interesting accidental jurisprudence for what LW norms around AI-heavy research should be, at least with early 2026 capabilities.)
This post went through multiple AI fact-checkers! Clearly that was not sufficient. I think the comments are right that for questions involving a lot of physics I should’ve gone to human experts (am slowly drafting a version involving them rn). Unsure an AI fact-checker would solve much of anything; at least, it would not have prevented this post from being automatically promoted to frontpage.
(I didn’t pull the post down because I think the core of the post still stands, and I suppose it’s also interesting accidental jurisprudence for what LW norms around AI-heavy research should be, at least with early 2026 capabilities.)