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I think Google, GPT-3, co-pilot, simple tricks like a 'wordcloud' and even regurgitation/review communities like HN, reddit and good reads show that the present

I think Google, GPT-3, co-pilot, simple tricks like a 'wordcloud' and even regurgitation/review communities like HN, reddit and good reads show that the presentation format of the information in a given system can be transformed to many diverse representations. Books and movies have long made plots off new ways to help humans learn things and form connections by either 1) changing the presentation format or 2) downloading all the information into the human brain to let it do the sorting. For example, overlying data on a map in 3d using glasses or wiring a human brain into a computer's serial ports. The main problem moving forward is making the data available. I have a fear that in the future only governments and large companies in bed with governments will have access to this data and use it in unethical ways. Meanwhile, startups and individuals will be bared from creating 'unlicensed' presentations or accessing the underlying data itself (i.e. running a search engine)

mikewarot 4y ago
>I have a fear that in the future only governments and large companies in bed with governments will have access to this data and use it in unethical ways. I'd look back to the Memex for the solution to that problem, it stored everything locally, thus links couldn't be broken. Output included all the linked items. It's possible to build a system that stores everything you've seen on the web locally, to prevent things from disappearing. I think local storage is highly undervalued, and the pendulum will shift back.
jimmySixDOF 4y ago
>overlying data on a map in 3d using glasses Yes. The opportunity to increase our functional representations of 2D knowledge bases is going to be a game changer that will compliment the Cambrian Explosion currently underway with the PKM/TfT use of symantec Graph connections & AI LLMs. Some efforts ongoing towards this [1] already and imho there is so much you can do to interact with data once you open up the presentation model to spatial computing inside a 3D embodied user interface like VR today, Passthrough AR tomorrow, and full AR a little down the line. [1] https://substack.soft.space/p/softspacear-prototype04 https://substack.soft.space/p/softspacear-prototype04
flarg 4y ago
Did you suggest running gpt3 on someone's email?

mikewarot 4y ago

>I have a fear that in the future only governments and large companies in bed with governments will have access to this data and use it in unethical ways. I'd look back to the Memex for the solution to that problem, it stored everything locally, thus links couldn't be broken. Output included all the linked items. It's possible to build a system that stores everything you've seen on the web locally, to prevent things from disappearing. I think local storage is highly undervalued, and the pendulum will shift back.

jimmySixDOF 4y ago

>overlying data on a map in 3d using glasses Yes. The opportunity to increase our functional representations of 2D knowledge bases is going to be a game changer that will compliment the Cambrian Explosion currently underway with the PKM/TfT use of symantec Graph connections & AI LLMs. Some efforts ongoing towards this [1] already and imho there is so much you can do to interact with data once you open up the presentation model to spatial computing inside a 3D embodied user interface like VR today, Passthrough AR tomorrow, and full AR a little down the line. [1] https://substack.soft.space/p/softspacear-prototype04 https://substack.soft.space/p/softspacear-prototype04

flarg 4y ago

Did you suggest running gpt3 on someone's email?