Comment by neom

My wifes particular area of research is using the capitalist system to "re build" broken slave family trees, she flys around the US going to archives and getting contracts and receipts for slaves, figures out how they got traded, and then figures out where they ended up, and then "re links" them to their their family to best of her ability. Although her area of research isn't particularly overflowing with researchers, there are still a lot of people like her who just have this very tacit knowledge among each other, they email around a lot and stuff, knowledge like who was running a region during a period, ofc they publish, but it's a small field and it's all extremely poorly documented. Was watching the Adam Brown interview with Dwarkesh Patel the other day and he said for his work LLMs are better than bothering an expert in an area of his field with a question, I'm not sure people in her field are able to do this as readily. Franky, I've yet to find a novel/or good use for an LLM in her work. I often joke that her and "her people" are going to be the last ones with jobs if they don't transfer their knowledge into LLMs, ha! :)