Okay, I did it. Threw Deep Research at the medical questions I tackled for ~months in 2020 when battling my wife's cancer

Based on my test case, this iteration of Deep Research can tell you what the current literature on a topic would advise, but not make novel deductions to improve upon where the human experts are at

I think it might have sped up my cancer research in 2020 but not replaced it. That guy saying it's better than his $150k/year team...maybe needs to get better at hiring, idk

🧵Thread with more details 0/n Tbc, it's still a great tool even in the current state that I expect to use. Just hunting around for relevant topics of a paper and finding the relevant ones can take hours. Useful even if I have to read and critically judge the papers myself 1/n

Lightcone/@lesswrong (where I work) is concluding the first month of our fundraiser. We’ve raised 1.3M out of 3M we need to make it through 2025. Habryka has a 12,000 word post making the case for us.

I’m here to tell you what Habryka cannot easily do so himself: why he as a specific human is worth funding for his projects. (Thread below.) @lesswrong 0. I’ve known @ohabryka since 2013 when he was ~19. I’ve worked with him at LessWrong/Lightcone since 2019 (six years).

If you factor in foregone income and less portable career capital, I’m a major donor to Habryka’s projects myself. Here’s why I do it: