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Thinking of starting an exobrain working group to focus on augmenting individual agency/intelligence with AI or even just software systems.

Interest areas:

information/knowledge acquisition (better deep research, feed reader/information diet optimization, augmented reading/research workbench)
augmented thinking (e.g. RoamResearch with AI justifier, counter-argument-producer, implicit assumption surfacer)
personal behavioral analysis (activities tracking/insights, tracking ideas/tasks/projects, augmented life goals reflection)
augmented agency (delegating tasks to AI agents, having AI make lower-entropy decisions when doing computer tasks)

3sophia_xu1y

Comment under this if interested :)

4Eli Tyre1y

Interested, though not particularly hopeful about any of these things proving really helpful (at least not yet, I bet I could see things that would change my mind).