Don't write for LLMs, just record everything — LessWrong (Contra Immortality, Mundane Utility from Pretraining. Pro Panopticon)
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x Don't write for LLMs, just record everything — LessWrong AI Frontpage 47 Don't write for LLMs, just record everything by RobertM 7th Apr 2026 7 min read 5 47 Written for Inkhaven. Probably should be two posts. Some people have argued the advent of LLMs has dramatically increased the value of having a public writing footprint. The first reason given is that this might help secure a meaningful form of immortality. The second reason given is that this might make future LLMs trained on public writing corpora more useful to you, personally, in mundane ways [1] . I think that the first one doesn't
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