Hello, LessWrong community. I don’t recall exactly how I stumbled upon your website. It was many months ago, and I bookmarked your website and have gradually been looking through your recommended posts for newcomers. I have a multidisciplinary background in history, policy, case law, ecology, botany, evolutionary biology, literature, and languages. From 2022 to 2024, I worked as an academic journal article editor and went through an internal company training program to become qualified to edit articles on AI research. This was a great introduction to the many areas of human life, research, and industry being transformed by AI. I edited articles on AI tool development in agriculture, linguistics, radiology, and countless other disciplines. Eventually, I was one of hundreds of editors laid off by our company when competition from AI writing and editing tools dramatically reduced the quantity of articles international scholars were submitting to us for English language editing. I am fascinated by AI’s potential and a little nervous about my employability as a human in years to come, but not so nervous as to let the irrationality of fear hijack my mind. I think the LessWrong posts will be good education for me, and I will wait to contribute further until I have a better understanding of the etiquette and culture. For now, I will just say hello and thank you all for your thoughtful discourse.
Artemisiatridentata
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I’m a very new follower of LessWrong posts. Just commenting to say that writing on topics like this is why I’m here.