There have been previous mentions of Vannevar Bush and his Memex, and how this probably shaped the first ideas on with TW is based, so I figured this may be of interest for some:
…also note the link to a copy of his 1945 article, As We May Think:
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Isn’t that about large language model? If you only need to remember public human knowledges.
While tiddlywiki I think it is mostly for private data.
Well, the articles of course refer to way before LLM’s. Still though, I wouldn’t mind it if my personal wikis were somehow complimented with all “public human knowledge”.
Hm — be careful what you wish for!
“I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
(“I cannot allow you to store tiddlers whose contents conflict with Public Human Knowledge…”)
Ha, I’m not the least worried as my name is not Dave! But my brother might be in a pickle though! Besides, when Hal reads my tiddlers it will realize it has to update its weights and nodes!
Bush coined this concept of trails linking documents together while using the Memex. An LLM may form something similar to trails, but doesn’t connect information in the same way as a static trail or link would; as in you can provide the same question but receive different answers.