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Re: Abstract Wikipedia

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> Let's follow one example: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. In Abstract Wikipedia, this might be stored as: Z27243(Q1033, Q138758272, Q6256, Q15, Z27243K5)

Haha that's like John Wilkins' "Real Character, and a Philosophical Language"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ricerca_della_Lingua_Perfet... is a great intro to the weird and wonderful world of abstract/universal/ideal/a priori languages.

Re: Abstract Wikipedia

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So rather than machine translation... really primitive machine translation with extra steps?

Would you rather use a compiler, or have an LLM generate assembly code based on source code?

The purpose is to establish a new high-level lanugage

Re: Abstract Wikipedia

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> Let's follow one example: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. In Abstract Wikipedia, this might be stored as: Z27243(Q1033, Q138758272, Q6256, Q15, Z27243K5) Haha that's like John Wilkins' "Real Character, and a Philosophical Language" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ricerca_della_Lingua_Perfet... is a great intro to the weird and wonderful world of abstract/universal/ideal/a priori languages.

It's not that different from how LLM tokens work, only in a tree structure as opposed to a plain sequence. Having a tree structure makes it easier to formally define rewrite rules (which is key for interpretability), as opposed to learning them from data as LLM do.
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