A bit tangential, I had this revelation one day that data itself is really quite cumbersome to work with. More cumbersome the higher the quantity you have of it

A bit tangential, I had this revelation one day that data itself is really quite cumbersome to work with. More cumbersome the higher the quantity you have of it. And also, it is actually mostly merely a serialization of knowledge that is inherently extremely inefficient, since you often need to process a lot of it to reach a conclusion or find some information you are looking for. It could in fact be stored much more succinctly and coherently in another representation, that is much easier to work with; in models. Why? Because models, at least models like LLMs, and other agent like ones, allow you to ask your questions directly, and let the model produce a serialized answer (a very small amount of data) on demand, instead of you processing through endless amounts of it, trying to find your answer. I wrote a short post about it earlier: https://livingsystems.substack.com/p/the-future-of-data-less-data https://livingsystems.substack.com/p/the-future-of-data-less...