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Don’t Lamport timestamps require all nodes to be known in advance? Powerful concept but impractical and far too unscalable to be used globally.
Most of the Xanadu data structure implementations, like ZigZag, just don't perform well enough at web scale.
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Ah, so like the distance between ambition and impact in metaphor/synthesis? I like that.
Do you mean that LLMs are unable to use metaphors effectively? (Just clarifying because English is not my first language)
i guess I'm saying it in a funny way because my brain has always thought about semantic space (and the act/object of conversation itself) in a very spatial way, and it seems that LLMs have a similar tendency
to elaborate: "unable to use metaphor effectively" seems to have multiple dimensions of failure, in which I find the distance metaphor to make easier to explore. A mind-like thing can (1) not know how to make the leaps (and so never try to make them), or (2) it can leap too ambititously and land in faraway places that don't have any deep symmetry in meaning... it can (3) also maybe "not stick the landing" while jumping someplace that theoretically might have merit (in a sense of global vs local scale, maybe being ok at the global scale orienting, but not local scale)...
So in my defence, I think there are failure modes of "being ineffective at metaphor" that are masked by speaking in plainer language :)
Reading this makes me wish someone would really try to make Project Xanadu a reality. A network built on Content Addressable Storage and a Version Control System is some thing I'd really like to see invested in.
The spec was kept proprietary and patented until about 2019. All you had before that was ramblings by an eccentric character who was 100% sure he was correct. https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/201904240732/Xanadu%20Hy... Now that we can actually read it, it's pretty much Urbit levels of kookiness all over. There's implementations. They're not very useful to a layperson. http://www.open.xanadu.com/
Was this jargon normal in 1984 because we hadn't invented words like "addresses" and "structs" yet?