I work mostly as a distiller (of xrisk-relevant topics). I try to understand some big complex thing, package it up all nice, and distribute it. The “distribute it” step is something society has already found a lot of good tech for. The other two steps, not so much.
Loom is lovely in the times I’ve used it. I would love to see more work done on things like this, things that enhance my intelligence while keeping me very tightly in the loop. Other things in this vein include:
memory augmentation beyond just taking notes (+Anki where appropriate). I’m both interested in working memory and long-term memory, but moreso in the former.
For digesting complex pieces, I’d like something better than a chat window for interactively getting up to my desired level of familiarity with some existing work. When I’m digesting the paper, do I want the one-sentence summary, the abstract, or to have a better understanding than the researchers behind it? NotebookLM is sort of doing this but I’ve found it lacking for this task for UI reasons (I also wish that it would automatically bring in other relevant sources).
I work mostly as a distiller (of xrisk-relevant topics). I try to understand some big complex thing, package it up all nice, and distribute it. The “distribute it” step is something society has already found a lot of good tech for. The other two steps, not so much.
Loom is lovely in the times I’ve used it. I would love to see more work done on things like this, things that enhance my intelligence while keeping me very tightly in the loop. Other things in this vein include:
memory augmentation beyond just taking notes (+Anki where appropriate). I’m both interested in working memory and long-term memory, but moreso in the former.
For digesting complex pieces, I’d like something better than a chat window for interactively getting up to my desired level of familiarity with some existing work. When I’m digesting the paper, do I want the one-sentence summary, the abstract, or to have a better understanding than the researchers behind it? NotebookLM is sort of doing this but I’ve found it lacking for this task for UI reasons (I also wish that it would automatically bring in other relevant sources).