Soil Ecosystems Shape Our Views of Big Discussions

[MarkBruns]

The discussions that happen here will basically be our own little discussions about the LARGER Big Discussions of our day.

Since "our day" now, not only includes but might be driven by AI assistants and content that comes from AI assistants, our own little discussions here will include a lot of reactions to what AI assistants [and their regurgitators] are saying.

Big Discussions

Big Discussions are things like the Wikipedia corpus or the Semantic Scholar corpus or the GitHub corpus which are ingested into large language models (LLMs). These Big Discussions do not typically include most of the comments or asides from the peanut gallery or hoi polloi, although the better, more memorable witticisms and more poetic or pithy comments will tend to be remembered, liked repeated and filter their way up to be repeated by participants in the Big Discussions. The participants in the Big Discussion will be those knowledgeable parties who have some form of skin in the game or some recognized standing in the academic, political business or bureaucratic realm ... they are the kinds of peers who have published decent work and, in turn, are chosen to review papers for peer-reviewed journals or, at very minimum, they are the ones with the thick enough skins to continually serve as established editors of Wikipedia pages.

MOST human beings do not work hard enough to earn the right to to participate in the Big Discussion ... and many CHOOSE to opt out and just not to be part of the Big Discussion.

As of March 2024, the "state-of-the-art" in AI assistants ... such as Claude, Grok, Gemini or ChatGPT/Copilot or Qwen as well as the other open source LLM models that we might experiment with and customize to run on our own machines ... are not genuinely intelligent in the sense that they can discuss an idea, but they ARE ARTIFICIALLY intelligent in the sense that their LLM processes rapidly summarize and to a large degree biasedly filter or spin the summarized results of a lowest-common-denominator majoritarian algorithmized regurgitation of the LARGER discussion about any topic.

AI assistants started out producing reasonably decent but sometimes gaff-rich hallucinations of clichés. But, now with increased computational power and the most creative tinkering by the best and brightest AI engineers on the planet, AI assistants are now giving us usually pretty decent, always reasonable-sounding, better-than-world-class, ultra-professional-quality clichés ... we have entered the most clichéd version of the self-referential, self-perpetuated Most Golden-est all Golden Ages of Clichés.

Soil Ecosystems Shape Our Views of Big Discussions

The intensely competetive and sometimes symbiotic natures of diverse organisms that populate soil ecoystems inform how we think about the realm of information technology and knowledge engineering ... hallucinations as well as daydreams and passing thoughts that crystallize into ideas and testable hypotheses which can become proven as coherent, reproducible concepts as well as methods, systems of best practices and enduring institutions that continually earn and re-establish their right to be sustained because of what they have done LATELY for the entire ecosystem. There are no endowed rights; rights are continually being disrupted and sustaining rights happens only through exercise and the competitive, continous improvement of Life, ie discipline produces freedom and freedom can produce discipline.

When it comes to ideas, pathwayss of research and development knowledge, we tend to be evolutionary systematicians ... in other words, we tend to believe that the connections between ideas [and discussions about those connections] in the larger knowledgegraph actually matter, particularly when we are discussing testable hypotheses ... the LARGER discussions matter ... they are why we work on things like listifications, our rssistant and our annotify.app . The word systematics is derived from the Latin word of Ancient Greek origin systema, which means systematic arrangement of organisms. Carl Linnaeus used 'Systema Naturae' as the title of his book.