Three AI Helper Experiments in Information Habits

In the past week I’ve started three personal experiments that use AI (in this case Claude Code). For each, the experiment lies in automating steps in my cognitive work that are useful or necessary but not the actual cognitive work itself. They’re helper activities, supporting the main task. For two of the three that is the clear focus, the third is slightly different. The three experiments are: Filtering on interests in my feed reader, let’s call it ‘Weak-tAIs’. ‘Slopsidian’, lifting concepts and argumentation from papers into Obsidian notes, and linking them iteratively. Explore questions with pre-existing ‘recipes’ that take a specific philosophical perspective. Perhaps I should dub this type of language game ‘WittgenstAIn III’. It started from an automation task, which I mentioned here: manipulating non-fiction e-books. I have a script that I can point to an e-book in my Calibre collection, and then will populate a note with elements from the book: foreword, index and literature…