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don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
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I think if I was going solely based on your comments, I would not believe that creation of a paper that could go in a 1st quartile social science journal is possible with current technology.
Doesn't seem at all ruled out by what I said (though even then I do not think you could reliably do that without an expert human in the loop).
I expect your current course of action will effectively take that option off of the table in practice.
I don't really understand how you came to this conclusion. There is no prohibition on using LLMs to do research that ends up published on LessWrong. I am sure that a large percentage of the work necessary for Ryan Greenblatt's latest piece of empirical research published on LessWrong was done by LLMs. This is totally fine. I expect this ratio to become more skewed over time.
But instead I would suggest you simply discourage posts if you can tell it's AI, rather than using the honor system.
I am confused by what you think we're currently doing and what we'll be doing in the future. We do already have both automated systems and human review for detecting whether posts contain non-trivial amounts of LLM-generated content in them. We are not going to stop using those systems the minute we introduce content blocks where LLM-generated content is permissible. We are moving to a more permissive regime with respect to LLM-generated content than the one we're currently in.
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.