This is my first
daylog. I'm pretty new to
e2, so I'm still finding my way around. I got my first
C! today, on my
experimental music writeup. This place is worse than crack... I've spent most of my workday on this site, and I find myself getting all excited about
XP and levels and crap.
Humans sure are easily manipulated with
incentives, even when they're abstract numbers on a computer somewhere...
But this place is pretty fucking cool...
In my poking around, I've been amazed at what is and isn't covered in the nodegel. I mean, I found a node for AMM, this obscure British avant-garde improvisation group, but I only found a two sentence node for Ralph Waldo Emerson. Gamaliel typed in all of John Cage's Indeterminacy poems, but there's virtually no information on geology. The knowledge density here is so heterogeneous.
I guess that's what surprises me. It seems like a system like this would tend towards homogeneity, and stasis, but because the people who would work on something like this are so strange, it justs ends up as this entirely idiosyncratic glob of information. The idea that I've seen tossed around about training an AI with this is a funny one. What would an entity be like when it knew the stats of all the hard drives on the market, thousands of lyrics to popular songs, obscure poetry, and the origin of truth tables?