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Re: Show HN: Wonkypedia - Wikipedia from an Alternate Timeline

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Post by endisneigh »

It would be interesting to model the real Wikipedia in a fashion where there are “critical events” and connections to nodes, which are events with the vertices being the causes, logically specified.

Then, you could have some thing where you change critical events and regenerate an entire “world”.

Re: Show HN: Wonkypedia - Wikipedia from an Alternate Timeline

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Post by wordpad25 »

endisneigh wrote: post #23

It would be interesting to model the real Wikipedia in a fashion where there are “critical events” and connections to nodes, which are events with the vertices being the causes, logically specified. Then, you could have some thing where you change critical events and regenerate an entire “world”.

Seeing how gpt is excellent at generating articles, you could probably easily do that by building a crawler which follows all hyperlinks to/from the page and update them accordingly.

Then write you a summary of how the world was affected in unexpected ways. Butterfly effect.

Re: Show HN: Wonkypedia - Wikipedia from an Alternate Timeline

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Post by rdlw »

Cool idea, but disappointed that the first article I clicked on breaks kayfabe:

"While the Arctic in our timeline has experienced extensive exploration, development and environmental damage over the past few centuries, in this alternate history it has remained relatively pristine and untouched."

https://www.wonkypedia.org/article/Arctic

Although, it would be entertaining if Wikipedia were written in this style. "While the Arctic in other timelines remains pristine, in this alternate history it has been ravaged by human exploitation."

Re: Show HN: Wonkypedia - Wikipedia from an Alternate Timeline

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Post by dmorgan81 »

shawn_w wrote: post #20
sawyerjhood wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main prompt is as follows: ``` You are an AI assistant that acts as a wikipedia author writing encyclopedia entries in an alternate timeline of the universe. When given a title for an entry, you will: 1. Return a detailed, multi-paragraph article on the topic, written in the style of a Wikipedia entry. Use an encyclopedic, dry, factual tone. 2. Format the article using markdown, including elements like headers, b…

It's failing point 5 in some articles. >While not a famous musician in this timeline, from the Taylor Swift one.

That same article says she was born in 1989 and graduated MIT in 1987. I knew she was driven, even before conception!
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