AI Research Assistants Are Skewing Citations Toward LessWrong-Adjacent Papers
davidmanheim · x · 2026-10-14
David Manheim adds an interesting angle to the discussion of Claude's rationalist style: models' suggested papers and resources favor LW-adjacent work.
He's fairly confident the surge in 2026 citations (shown in a bar chart climbing from 2023 to 2026) of his paper with Scott Garrabrant on Goodhart's law is largely due to people using AI for literature research — meaning model biases are measurably shaping academic citation patterns.
In the quoted tweet he notes models use rationalist phrasing mainly when user profile/history signals it: "If you have a prior belief, you'll hear about cruxes."
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