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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think I get you. You can’t really play around with a new concept in your head until it has a name.

I hate AI slop, but one research trick they are good at is identifying the existing vocabulary others have developed. You can describe the phenomenon in pretty shaky terms and it will spit out the magic words to connect you to the research of others on that topic.

I have found that it accelerates my research significantly because I spend less time in the weeds trying it on my own. It is thus easier to find the edges of our collective knowledge and move research efforts to more unexplored areas.