I thought it would be interesting to try having Claude Code download my entire LessWrong and EA Forum post and comment history and evaluate it for my own cognitive biases and problematic communication patterns. I told it to focus especially on problems that have persisted over my 7-year history on those sites. I also had it look at my lichess blitz rating history, which I've noticed tends not to wobble randomly but go through consistent increases and decreases between set points, despite my lack of any disciplined practice. There are a few reasons I thought it might be interesting to post publicly. As a commitment device for myself to work on these problems. Because AI is uniquely capable of working on this type of problem. It's also a good argument for writing online and gives a new spin on the idea of "writing for the AI" that feels more affirming of the human mind than how I normally read the phrase (as offering up your words as fodder for AI training, perhaps in hope of influencing its alignment in beneficial ways). To stimulate other people to consider whether they might want to do this, and see what other people think about the exercise. Post history and online game scores are forms of rich longitudinal personal data that might directly reflect mood, cognition, and other factors, and that we are generating for free. Perhaps it's worth trying to harvest insight about ourselves from these resources. I considered including apologies to the specific users who Claude identi…

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