What Nathan Lambert thinks about writing

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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1. 12 Aug 2026

   Our readingProgress toward AI autonomously solving major open scientific problems requires first mastering the organization and presentation of established knowledge in long-form writing.

   Their wordsModels being stagnant in long-form, non-fiction writing should be alarming to those reliant on models autonomously solving grand, open science problems in the near future.

   ↗I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?interconnects.ai 1st of 3 in this piece