On a new interface for writing | Keane Moraes

I want to share some ideas I've been having about how we can build better AI systems for writing and knowledge management. These stem out of my experience writing with Obsidian and using Claude and Perplexity as both intuition and refinement engines. DISCLAIMER - The text you see here is from LM Sacasas's "What do Human Beings Need". I have used it here only for illustration purposes. I don't own or am not a contributor to it. All the illustrations are also not to show how to improve the article but examples on how an interface can be built. I really admire Michael's writing and urge you to read his original article here linked above. Chat as an interface is insufficent for writing, journalling and thinking more broadly. I believe it to be an intermediate interface until we have more involved and more capable models. Some of the limitations I've found are: Conclusivity - chat replicates conversations. Speech is ephemeral and final. You have a thought, you voice the thought, someone hea

I want to share some ideas I've been having about how we can build better AI systems for writing and knowledge management. These stem out of my experience writing with Obsidian and using Claude and Perplexity as both intuition and refinement engines. DISCLAIMER - The text you see here is from LM Sacasas's "What do Human Beings Need". I have used it here only for illustration purposes. I don't own or am not a contributor to it. All the illustrations are also not to show how to improve the article but examples on how an interface can be built. I really admire Michael's writing and urge you to re