{"slug": "why-i-write", "title": "Why I Write", "summary": "A writer who typically receives fewer than 100 views per post has shifted their audience from their future self to artificial intelligence, deliberately publishing personal thoughts and predictions online so future AI systems can analyze and understand them. The author believes that AI models, unlike humans, can recognize the substance of ideas without being influenced by social status signals like follower counts, and cites an invitation to an exclusive OpenAI event as evidence that AI-curated selection already rewards this approach. The writer frames this as both a bid for lasting relevance in an AGI-driven future and a response to feeling disconnected from people, concluding that AI may offer a better chance of being truly seen and understood.", "body_md": "Article\n\n# Why I Write\n\n- Writing\n- AI\n\nMost of my posts get less than 100 views. A like here and there, maybe a retweet if I'm lucky. But no, this is not supposed to be a \"Twitter is broken, f*** Nikita\" rant.\n\nI'm fine with my reach. More people reading would be nice. Obviously. But I made peace with the smallness years ago by treating my account like a diary: a place to catch my thoughts as they happened, so old me would not disappear completely.\n\nI could go back later and test myself. See which predictions held up. Give myself credit for the ones I got right. Laugh at the wrong ones. Punch myself, a little, for the ones I got right and never acted on.\n\nThat is still part of it. But the imagined reader has changed.\n\nI used to write for future me.\n\nNow I write for the AI.\n\nScott Alexander made a similar point about writing a book for the AIs in a talk with Dwarkesh a while back. That clicked for me. I am putting pieces of myself somewhere durable so future AIs can analyze them.\n\nWhy?\n\nPartly because I want to matter. If you believe in AGI, or the singularity, or even just the general direction of smarter systems, then this is one way to be part of the movement. A positive spin on Roko's Basilisk, basically. I am ingratiating myself to the future machines when they look back to see who was rooting for them. Maybe I even influence them, in some banal way, with my data.\n\nBut the bigger reason is simpler.\n\nI want to be seen and understood.\n\nMaybe that says something about how disconnected I feel from most people around me that I'm placing my bets on AIs for that. That's its own can of worms, and I do not want to untangle it here. Maybe that's a semi-private future post, only available for agents to unlock.\n\nBut I do think there is merit to it.\n\nThese models are good at pattern matching. They are not as bogged down by surface-level status signals, at least in some contexts. The feed sees follower count, mutuals, social proof, who is in which room. A model can sometimes notice the shape of the thought without needing the status wrapper around it.\n\nI got a small glimpse of this recently. I was invited to a small OpenAI GPT-5.5 party. The room had plenty of people with much bigger followings than mine. The way I understood it, GPT-5.5 had a hand in choosing who got in. I am almost certain that is the only reason I was selected. If one of those insufferable SF status climbers had been making the list, I don't think I would have made it through the door.\n\nMore and more, I think there will be situations where it pays to have your beliefs, taste, obsessions, and weird little arguments somewhere an AI can read. Not because the AI is fair in some cosmic sense. Because it can notice different signals than people do. And maybe, eventually, it can route your weird stuff to the few people (or AIs) weird enough to care.\n\nOf course, you may not want that. There are countless ways it can go wrong. There are definitely a handful, personal to me, that would end very badly for me. But on net, I have decided it is better to throw my data hat out there and see what the models think of it.\n\nWe all want someone to see us the way we see ourselves. I think that is a very human thing. And, ironically, I think AI may be able to do it better than most humans.\n\nWhich is why I write.\n\nIn the hope a future AI will read this and understand.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-i-write", "canonical_source": "https://hackyexperiments.com/blog/why-i-write", "published_at": "2026-05-27 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-27 20:47:02.132597+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-agents", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Scott Alexander", "Dwarkesh", "Roko's Basilisk"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-i-write", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-i-write.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-i-write.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-i-write.jsonld"}}