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Your idea for "angels-on-the-shoulder" as part of the epistemic stack addresses a critical legibility requirement for any information system. Power users may dive into adjacent information and consolidate understanding with reference material, but the vast majority of users will be passive, not active. Even power users are likely to be active only in domains where they believe they have outsized insight, and only when they have time to devote to doing epistemic work. Have you considered what the incentive structure looks like for the power users who do the epistemic work that passive users rely on? The angels need to eat.
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We’ve recently published a set of design sketches for tools for strategic awareness.
We think that near-term AI could help a wide variety of actors to have a more grounded and accurate perspective on their situation, and that this could be quite important:
We’re excited for people to build tools that help this happen, and hope that our design sketches will make this area more concrete, and inspire people to get started.
The (overly-)specific technologies we sketch out are:
If you have ideas for how to implement these technologies, issues we may not have spotted, or visions for other tools in this space, we’d love to hear them.
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