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Seeking the ever elusive Oracle to help us make sense... And when we have the Oracle, we can still choose to ignore what it tells us... I believe Freebase was

Seeking the ever elusive Oracle to help us make sense... And when we have the Oracle, we can still choose to ignore what it tells us... I believe Freebase was trying to meet similar goals ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase_(database) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase_(database) ) And Wolfram Alpha has similar features/functions to provide a look into data & its connections ( https://www.wolframalpha.com/ https://www.wolframalpha.com/ )

adam_bly 5y ago
That choice will hopefully always be true in a free society. I founded System because the biggest challenges we face in the world — from COVID to climate change — are systemic, yet our data and knowledge are organized into silos. I believe this fundamental incongruity makes it impossible to think, plan, and act systemically. As a result, we are stifled in our ability to reliably predict outcomes, make decisions, mitigate risks, and improve the state of the world for everyone. System is a shared tool for systems thinking — and, we hope, a springboard for collective action. We have great respect for freebase (see comment below on metaweb) and WA. System offers a different lens on data and knowledge rooted in the statistical associations between things in the world.