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AdminArticle: We're Creating a Knowledge Collapse and No One's Talking About It
https://dev.to/dannwaneri/were-creating-a-knowledge-collapse-and-no-ones-talking-about-it-226d
I think the concept of knowledge collapse has very much been talked about but the interesting perspective of this article is the idea that friction through conversation is where new knowledge is born.
An the answer to the counter argument that AI is just an technical tool evolution with regards to AI model training:
horses didn't build the knowledge base that cars trained on. Developers did.
I love seeing the debates, Juergen_Mang and Kai_Wilke talking about things way over my head, as they both can be right but differ at the same time.
I hope we never lose these conversations. This industry would be pretty boring without.
8 Replies
- Kai_Wilke
MVP
Hey Buu,
the article sums up a huge problem we are facing right now. Many thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Kai
- tysmith
Conversation is indeed where real discovery is made. Coming out of AppWorld, one thing I wonder: how can I possibly transcribe the valuable discussions that happened real-time outside of the official panels?
One of the best parts of engaging such a knowledgeable group of engineers is being able to participate in the back-and-forth of assertion and counterpoint. That's the kind of content that deserves to be preserved. Maybe anonymized? Because I know, for one, that the cadence of in-person discussion feels much more forgiving than the potential fangs of "YOU SAID SOMETHING WRONG ON THE INTERNET". Regardless of how welcoming a community may be, the internet is forever.- buulam
Ideally we get past anonymization but to do so we have to retrain ourselves on civil discourse with every revolution of communication medium. We get great conversations when we can be open and vulnerable. It's tempting to carry around those meeting note taker devices like Plaud.ai or others and I suspect people who are often on Zoom meetings are close to the point where they are just assuming everything is being recorded anyways.
I would totally sponsor a Community project where a couple people attempt to DIY a smart recorder.
- tysmith
One major issue I think you'll find is the smart glasses effect. Once people realize they're being recorded, human nature seems to impart that we act differently. I think the middle ground of zoom calls you pointed out is probably the closest we're going to get. It eliminates the geographic challenges of getting everyone in the same room, while providing the free-form context of discussion that's necessary for conversational-friction to develop (and hopefully find resolve).
As a side note, are there any 'dev central meetup' zooms that happen? It could be interesting.
