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Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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Post by scrapcode »

ShamelessC wrote: post #19
swatcoder wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn't. It's just their way of showing sympathy. The OP may not find the prayer itself practical, as indeed many on the planet mightn't, but the expression doesn't assume so. Common secular expressions like "Sending good thoughts" or "I feel you" are just immaterial and seemingly ineffectual but similarly get across the point that someone has slowed down long enough to show care.

It's really not a big deal. I understand what they meant. I just think the secular variety of expression is preferable to (some) who have lost someone. Religions deal with the afterlife in different ways, and so it could be seen as someone else making "judgemental" assumptions.

He literally just stated that he personally prayed to his God for them... you are the one evangelizing here.

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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Post by mpalmer »

scrapcode wrote: post #21
ShamelessC wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really not a big deal. I understand what they meant. I just think the secular variety of expression is preferable to (some) who have lost someone. Religions deal with the afterlife in different ways, and so it could be seen as someone else making "judgemental" assumptions.

He literally just stated that he personally prayed to his God for them... you are the one evangelizing here.

Devil's (heh) advocate: the prayer itself matters and is a nice thought, but mentioning the recipient of the prayer makes it a soft pitch, which some might reasonably find unwelcome or awkward.

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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Post by soperj »

scrapcode wrote: post #21
ShamelessC wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really not a big deal. I understand what they meant. I just think the secular variety of expression is preferable to (some) who have lost someone. Religions deal with the afterlife in different ways, and so it could be seen as someone else making "judgemental" assumptions.

He literally just stated that he personally prayed to his God for them... you are the one evangelizing here.

I thought Jesus was supposed to be God's son, not literally god?

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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Post by ShamelessC »

scrapcode wrote: post #21
ShamelessC wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really not a big deal. I understand what they meant. I just think the secular variety of expression is preferable to (some) who have lost someone. Religions deal with the afterlife in different ways, and so it could be seen as someone else making "judgemental" assumptions.

He literally just stated that he personally prayed to his God for them... you are the one evangelizing here.

Okay, sorry if I came across as evangelical. I understand there's no malicious intent.

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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Post by Teever »

swatcoder wrote: post #14
ShamelessC wrote: post #12

Perhaps best not to assume everyone on the planet worships Jesus Christ. edit: It's really not a big deal though. Sorry for stirring a controversy unnecessarily.

They didn't. It's just their way of showing sympathy. The OP may not find the prayer itself practical, as indeed many on the planet mightn't, but the expression doesn't assume so. Common secular expressions like "Sending good thoughts" or "I feel you" are just immaterial and seemingly ineffectual but similarly get across the point that someone has slowed down long enough to show care.

It's not their way of showing sympathy. It's their way of shoehorning their religion into a conversation about technical stuff.

It's the equivalent of corporate astorturfing, but the product they're advertising is Jesus.

"This comment brought to you by Christ."

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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Post by scrapcode »

soperj wrote: post #23
scrapcode wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He literally just stated that he personally prayed to his God for them... you are the one evangelizing here.

I thought Jesus was supposed to be God's son, not literally god?

I think it can vary depending on denomination but within the belief of the trinity, it is one god in the form of three persons (father, son, holy spirit). I am certainly no theologian, though, so take that with a grain of salt.

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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Post by visarga »

jfk13 wrote: post #17
visarga wrote: post #13

We need an AI-generated encyclopedia - not for us, but for AI. It should have a trillion articles covering all known entities and concepts, written using RAG over the web. Controversial topics should report the controversy or the distribution of opinions. We can put this big synthetic text corpus in the training set of future models. Why? Because AI needs long form, in-depth texts to train on, and the web doesn't pro…

> the web doesn't provide it in sufficient quantity and quality Do you seriously think that "an AI-generated encyclopedia" would provide a better-quality training set? What would the "AI generator's" articles be derived from?

So the way I see it, in the first stage the model can take all concepts in Wikipedia and other knowledge bases, and do web search, collect a bunch of references, study and compile a report. That's straight forward search + summarization. The advantage would be that models get to bring together information sitting in separate examples and synthesize or draw conclusions.

The second stage would be to generate research questions, then solve them with LLM+web search+code execution+other tools. The results would be compiled in reports. So it's a loop of problem generation, problem solving and validation. You can validate with highly trusted sources, or you can run code or simulations, ensemble multiple attempts, or even leave it to ranking by a preference model.

Re: Show HN: An AI-Generated Encyclopedia

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Post by lfkdev »

mpalmer wrote: post #22
scrapcode wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He literally just stated that he personally prayed to his God for them... you are the one evangelizing here.

Devil's (heh) advocate: the prayer itself matters and is a nice thought, but mentioning the recipient of the prayer makes it a soft pitch, which some might reasonably find unwelcome or awkward.

Not really Devils Advocat, this is literally what it is
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