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LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

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Re: LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

#21
The biggest problem with complexity is that you have it. I applaud wanting to manage complexity, but there's a difference between managing complexity and simply hiding it.

You want the right information, summarized correctly, from the right source, to the right person, and just in time. We can barely, sometimes, do that if we're lucky with deterministic systems... We loose most of the control of any of these pieces in probabilistic systems. Maybe that works for you, but it feels like hubris to use it anywhere I might actually think I could use it.

Re: LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

#28
Beautiful blog post!

I've built something similar and have yet to find a compelling use case for it. In my mind it seemed like such an obvious idea that I thought I'd start using it instead of Wikipedia. However, in practice I seldom care about the broader or more specific topics for the thing I'm looking into. It's strange though because I'm a compulsive rabbit holer but it just doesn't trigger the same urge to explore related nodes as Wikipedia does.

With that said, this UI is much slicker so maybe that is the missing piece.

Re: LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

#30
post #19

Unless someone starts paying people to read a system like this will probably be inevitable in our information saturated age were nobody has the time to read anymore. Pulling in decades or centuries worth of context and motivation for the passage you are reading is definitely a worthwhile goal. I really like the layout of the reimagined wikipedia it has the feeling that there is an entire group of people and subjects…

Ever heard of executive summaries?
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