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I think the issue with this is that as individuals we attach our identity to our dialog and put it out into the world to share it, express ourselves, to provide
by benstopics 4y ago
I think the issue with this is that as individuals we attach our identity to our dialog and put it out into the world to share it, express ourselves, to provide value to the world, and also to collaborate and iterate and learn ourselves… with other individuals. The problem with deconstructing human ideas and information like this is that it ignores temporality. What is true today may not be true tomorrow, what is relevant today may not be relevant tomorrow. For the preservation of scientific or historic information this works great, and even allows copywriting of works. However, the true order of the day is leading and making decisions which ends up taking place in dialogue.
Dialogue is the single-threaded brute forcing and tree traversing activity for making decisions. Within a single thread, multiple subthreads do branch off, but then they become decentralized which is not what we want. We want each subthread to be conscious of it’s uniqueness to all other threads globally and for any duplication to be catalogued or ideally merged and then hyperlinked and indexed within the grand scheme. This is difficult when the most granular we can get in terms of categorization is the factual information or simply the topic itself. Places like HN and Reddit do well in allowing you to provide an entire article or website as the context and allow that to be explored, but how would you categorize this information? The real question is how do you make this visible and accessible from a single standpoint: an individual trying to learn something or make a decision. I think search engines like Google have solved this problem well simply by using the heuristic method of merit (backlinks, page rank, keywords) and so to implement this on a miniature scale for an organization would be useful, but the problem is that it would require users within the organization to forgo going to Google and instead use the provided Intranet which initially would be less useful and again may never be as useful as Google. So the solution might be to use Google as an indexing service which currently is not possible.
I think at the end of the day we are ignoring is the incentives. If people were incentivized to construct the information in this way, get some sort of reward, then it would happen naturally. But I don’t even think it is possible for a human to do that, say, store all of HN dialogues globally for example in their head and consider THAT before writing anything otherwise hyperlinking to what is already there.
The main issue is that knowledge is a graph, not a tree, and dialogue is linear. So in order to consume knowledge through text as quickly and efficiently as possible is more of a graph or traveling salesman problem which is very hard to solve, maybe something that Quantum AI can help with. One thing would be to incentivize hyperlinking. Another might be to store information in images using something like a way more advanced DALL-E that allows the human mind to grasp concepts simply through looking at trippy images or videos. To somehow use spatial and visual understanding to up the number of dimensions of what knowledge we can store and download into our brains.