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Who are the best people you know at using LLMs for productivity?
1 min readJun 22, 2025
As AI gets increasingly capable, deploying AI tools to enhance our work could become a big bottleneck on the impact of the EA/x-risk community. Lizka and Owen at Forethought estimate that 30% of the x-risk community should focus on applying AI tools to better navigate existential risks. To which you might reasonably retort: 'ok, but how?'
Right now I feel that for many EA projects the best advice I could personally give them would be sending a crude red placard with 'DO MORE AI' slapped on in thick paint, which seems suboptimal.
Luckily, some people in this community are already using AI to make their work/their organization much more productive, and there's probably a lot to learn just by looking at what they do. I'm planning to reach out to them, extract their secrets, and hopefully synthesize something more useful than my current placard strategy.
Alex Lawsen has lots of relevant blog posts https://lawsen.substack.com/
(I can't vouch that he'll be able to talk though - he seems like a busy man.)
Oh, amazing! I didn't knew Alex had a Substack. And indeed, it's full of advice for using LLMs for work.
Here's a relevant link for those interested: https://lawsen.substack.com/p/lean-into-laziness
On the same genre there's also these posts from Shakeel Hashim and Peter Hartree on how they use LLMs: