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my side-project is Possible World Wikis: https://www.possibleworldwikis.com/

LLM/procedurally-generated fictional wikis with worldbuilding history/context so the wiki stays coherent. Fun project to make the most of LLM hallucinations


Possible World Wikis! https://www.possibleworldwikis.com/

LLM/procedurally-generated fictional wikis with worldbuilding history/context so the wiki stays coherent. Fun project to make the most of LLM hallucinations


Sorry I botched that. Fixing now and will post again, thank you for bringing it to my attention!


@ruthvik947 - Thanks... but now I have the option to either "Create account" or "Sign in". How do I know that I even want to create an account and check it out? It would be great if there was a way to see at least some of the information so that I could decide whether I want to do that step of creating an account.


Hey, HN, this was inspired by Borges’ fictional encyclopaedias and the idea (Brian Eno’s I think) that the flaws of a system/tool (hallucinations and LLMs here) are what we come to value over time. Hope you find it somewhat interesting/fun!


This stands in pretty stark contrast to a recent popular post on here about how important memorising things is to developing knowledge


How did the Netherlands go from 0.9 in 2019 to 0.75 in 2021!? You'd need nothing short of a mini-revolution to do that in those timescales


I have a philosophy degree, have worked in product teams, and have had very similar observations. I could've written this comment!



Sorry, but I'm not interested in blog posts from lobbyist in Washington, the same place pushing to build mega datacentres with Nvidia servers in developing countries.

Also, Andy's blog post doesn't mention infrastructure-scale impacts. Even small actions add up, and as AI scales exponentially, so does the demand on energy and water. That part gets left out.

I'll stick with the research papers published by AI researchers [1] and investigative journalists [2], but thanks for sharing your link, it gives me a good idea of what lobbyists in Washington aren't saying.

[1] https://eng.ox.ac.uk/case-studies/the-true-cost-of-water-guz...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-cent...


Not sure if you actually read the article but infrastructural impact is clearly discussed.

You sent over two links about the environmental impact of data centres. There is no denial that these are burdensome on the environment; the question is to what degree AI and its applications contribute to that effect. If you wanted to argue in good faith you'd be advocating for everyone to stop watching Netflix, because video streaming generates a far greater demand than AI currently does, but I don't see you doing this.


I had this for about a year, and it really only went away when I quit my job. It wasn't even a particularly demanding job, but I guess the lifestyle + the fact that I felt I was wasting my life away might have played a role. Nothing else is really different.


Most people are familiar with the Peter Principle where it talks about people rising to their level of incompetence.

But I think there's still plenty more that makes it worth a read. For example, something along the lines of, sometimes a man will pop an antacid and lament that their illness is negatively affecting their work, when in fact the causality is exactly reversed


I have had near-debilitating non-GI physical symptoms when it was time to leave a job in the past. I might just be bad at responding to those before it gets to be a five alarm fire.

Worth mentioning is I got the same symptoms (tendinitis) a few months prior to this, but went to PT and got them resolved. Bodies/minds are fun!


Indeed! As Witt once said, "if a lion could speak, we would not understand it." (https://iep.utm.edu/wittgens/#H5)


Is it common to abbreviate Wittgenstein to "Witt"? Don't recall seeing/hearing that before, but it's been awhile since undergrad.


Sorry, it's not really, just a personal nickname for him. Although I think I recall that Austin would call him Witters (very much to this annoyance).


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