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Would you use Fable 5 by Anthropic or Replit

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Cambridge will give you more options in the long term. It will give you connections that Amazon cannot.
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Our economy is based on debt. New money comes from issuing debt. If there are not enough people taking on debt, the economy will not function as well. This is part of the reason so many people take on debt. The cultural value is worth more than the monetary value.
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It is very much a topic of the future. There are several science fiction novels written around it. Isaac Asimov has the Encyclopedia Galactica in his Foundation series. David Brin also has the Encyclopedia Galactica in his uplift trilogy. Gordon R. Dickson wrote a book called The Final Encyclopedia. It has been a dream for a long time. Some people consider The Library of Alexandria the first attempt at this.
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The closest place where I thnk they could have done this already is the DARPA Memex project named after Vannevar Bush's idea. But it is not public. https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/memex
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This goes well past libraries and into new concepts. Vannevar Bush wrote an article you might find interesting, As We May Think, it is the precursor in many ways to the internet. https://web.mit.edu/sts.035/www/PDFs/think.pdf

  A book you might also want to read is The World Brain by H.G. Wells which is about a world encyclopedia.  https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1303731h.html
Some people say that this book helped inspire Wikipedia.

However, classification systems are limited. There are currently over 13 zettabytes on the internet right now. This is more than any library can hold. We have entered the zettabyte era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte_Era

  I believe it would take something similar to a multi zettabyte vector database attached to a knowledge graph of all the content on the internet and available content in universities and libraries to build a universal taxonomy. Artificial intelligence with human oversite would be used to create a self organizing map based on existing taxonomies like the Universal Decimal Classification or Library of Congress.  It would fill in the holes of the existing system.
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This goes well past libraries and into new concepts. Vannevar Bush wrote an article you might find interesting, As We May Think, it is the precursor in many ways to the internet. https://web.mit.edu/sts.035/www/PDFs/think.pdf

  A book you might also want to read is The World Brain by H.G. Wells which is about a world encyclopedia.  
Some people say that it is the precursor to Wikipedia. If you want a more comprehensive classification system, the Library of Congress classification system is public domain and deeper than the Dewey Classification system. It is more academic in nature. https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

However, classification systems are limited. There are currently over 13 zettabytes on the internet right now. This is more than any library can hold. We have entered the zettabyte era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte_Era

  I believe it would take something similar to a multi zettabyte vector database attached to a knowledge graph of all the content on the internet and available content in universities and libraries to build a universal knowledge graph that would house the totality of human knowledge.

  This is not a traditional classification system.  The taxonomy and organizational structure would come out of the database which would modify existing classification systems.  It would be like a universal library, but it would not have walls or physical limits.
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I am playing around with creating a public domain repository for ebooks. https://babelnexus.com There are a few differences. It uses core collection theory and is selective. The name comes from the short story The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges. Borges used Hexagonal Galleries for his library. I realized you could put anything into hexagonal galleries. It did not have to be books composed of random letters. I also saw that you could use different levels to group kinds of knowledge using the spiral staircase concept. I have added other concepts like reading trails and cortex maps. I learned that the hexagonal concept of Borges library matches with knowledge graphs with both nodes and edges. There is a lot of experimentation in what I am doing. It is an art project, a bit of philosophizing, a bit on the public domain and many other things.
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Jensen Huang can take over both of their companies. Things might become a little better if he did.
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Melted plastic
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I rather like the idea of Universal Knowledge Graphs because it relates to Universal Libraries, a concept which I am interested in. There is some material like this in arXiv A Universal Question-Answering Platform for Knowledge Graphs https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00595
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There is a 150 KW Solar Array on Space X's first Data Center In Space It was launched in June of 2026. Technology improves at a steady pace. Space solar power is new and will improve over time because it is not a mature technology. Also, in space solar power is continuous and receives more energy than on the ground. https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/article/spacex-...
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The advantage is solar power in space. They will never stop getting sunlight.
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I have always liked arXiv's articles on information science and library science. I hope they continue publishing quality research.
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I like Loeb's theory about the comet. It is just off base enough to make a kind of sense.
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This is an interesting App. I think it was made by Fable 5 before it got shut down.
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For me it is just media. No things.
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As a demonstration, I built a discovery tool for the public domain. It uses ideas from the Library of Babel, the World Brain, and other sources. The works in the project are public domain. It is a bit of art, a bit of entropy, some creativity, and the driven idea of universal libraries. I am seeking feedback, be brutal, be honest, help me make it better.