Anders Sandberg: co-writing a paper with Claude makes pre-registering hypotheses painless
anderssandberg · x · 2026-10-07
Futurist Anders Sandberg shares an unexpected perk of co-writing a paper with an LLM: Claude has boundless energy for pre-registering predictions before experiments and doesn't get discouraged when many fail. He jokes that disconfirming his own ideas is becoming fun, and the paper will link logs of his and Claude's forecasts. He also notes a real risk: reviewers often want the 'boring' pre-registration section cut, so the preprint tends to be the more honest version.
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