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I've been thinking about this problem on and off for several years (including a startup with an alpha version a couple of years ago). It's especially important
by djhn 11y ago
I've been thinking about this problem on and off for several years (including a startup with an alpha version a couple of years ago).
It's especially important in learning.
How do you organize and present information in a way that finding things most important/natural/easy/interesting to you isn't limited by dissipation of such information through old-fashioned network effects.
- nitrogen 11y agoNo matter what, I think you must first build a knowledge graph. One example that was recently posted to HN is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468732. Maybe it could be crowdsourced or generated by mining Wikipedia. Then you need some way for people to find out where they are on that knowledge graph, and a recommendation engine for where to go next. I also think it would be useful to mix in a few random topic nodes that are some number of hops away from a person's current knowledge, plus occasionally a completely random topic of the day. But that's just the most trivial beginning to an enormous problem.
- djhn 11y agoI'm glad there are others who think the same way! Like always, probably more topic-specific solutions will lead the way to a hopefully universal collection of knowledge.
- nitrogen 11y agoOne way to think of it is as a very early precursor to the civilization bootstrapping kits included on starships in Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought novels (particularly The Children of the Sky).