AI for Epistemics Hackathon

By Austin @ 2025-03-14T20:46 (+29)

This is a linkpost to https://manifund.substack.com/p/ai-for-epistemics-hackathon

This is a crosspost, probably from LessWrong. Try viewing it there.

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Angelina Li @ 2025-03-15T02:54 (+6)

Nice, sounds like a fun event! Thanks for pointing to the initial list of concrete projects, I found them interesting, especially:

Pedantry metrics — I found that an interesting way to think about degrees of falsehoods / how misleading statements can be. Maybe there's some sort of evals flavored project there?
Argument parser — I like the idea of creating some sort of LLM tool to "neutralize persuasion / rhetoric".

I'd be kind of interested to see someone try those ideas out if you re-run this hackathon. And wow, I found the demo on detecting fraudulent research super cool. Agreed that it'd be exciting to see this go viral.

Austin @ 2025-03-15T16:21 (+6)

Thanks Angelina! It was indeed fun, hope to have you join in some future version of this~

And yeah definitely great to highlight that list of projects, many juicy ideas in there for any aspiring epistemics hacker, still unexplored. (I think it might be good for @Owen Cotton-Barratt et al to just post that as a standalone article!)

david_reinstein @ 2025-03-15T18:21 (+2)

Possibly naive question: are the projects open source, shared code, and forkable?

Austin @ 2025-03-15T22:31 (+4)

Some are! Check out each project in the post, some have links to source code.

(I do wish we'd gotten source code for all of them, next time might consider an open source hackathon!)