I’m a huge fan of Anki. I love being able to remember what I read for however long I want to. However, most Anki decks I’ve found about rationality are nonexistent, unhelpful, out of date, or poorly formatted.
Recently, I found this post from 2023 that used GPT-4 to make a Rationality: From AI to Zombies deck, but I found the cards so long, obtuse, and unusable that it made me want to do better.
After dozens of hours making a custom Python package to generate cards with GPT-4o-mini, followed by having Claude Sonnet 4 revise, reduce, and reconsolidate the cards, I am proud to present:
The (Unofficial) Rationality: From AI to Zombies Deck, available from AnkiWeb or Google Drive.
I definitely spent way longer than I needed to in making this, but I’m really happy with the result. I think it’s a definite improvement over existing shared decks, and I hope it can be of benefit to others too.
I also enjoyed making my Articles to Anki python package, which automatically generates and exports Anki cards from URLs or local files. There are definitely still some improvements to be made[1], but it is functional, useful, and developing it did a lot to bring me up to speed with coding with LLM assistance.
If this is well received or I find it personally useful, I’ll probably make some more decks for rationalist content. Let me know if you have any requests or feedback!
The (Unofficial) Rationality: A-Z Anki Deck
I’m a huge fan of Anki. I love being able to remember what I read for however long I want to. However, most Anki decks I’ve found about rationality are nonexistent, unhelpful, out of date, or poorly formatted.
Recently, I found this post from 2023 that used GPT-4 to make a Rationality: From AI to Zombies deck, but I found the cards so long, obtuse, and unusable that it made me want to do better.
After dozens of hours making a custom Python package to generate cards with GPT-4o-mini, followed by having Claude Sonnet 4 revise, reduce, and reconsolidate the cards, I am proud to present:
The (Unofficial) Rationality: From AI to Zombies Deck, available from AnkiWeb or Google Drive.
I definitely spent way longer than I needed to in making this, but I’m really happy with the result. I think it’s a definite improvement over existing shared decks, and I hope it can be of benefit to others too.
I also enjoyed making my Articles to Anki python package, which automatically generates and exports Anki cards from URLs or local files. There are definitely still some improvements to be made[1], but it is functional, useful, and developing it did a lot to bring me up to speed with coding with LLM assistance.
If this is well received or I find it personally useful, I’ll probably make some more decks for rationalist content. Let me know if you have any requests or feedback!
Help is very much welcome. It was mostly Sonnet 4 and I flying by the seat of our pants.