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chongliyesterday at 8:11 PM1 replyview on HN

Read the rest of the discussion. The claim is about text which is in principle incomprehensible to humans.

If there exists a text which only one person can understand, that person can communicate their understanding to others, even if that doesn't help them with the original text. That dissemination of knowledge is what provides the value, not the mere existence of the text. If that person forgets or dies before they can share their knowledge then it will be lost.

We have many examples of this from history: ancient texts written in a lost language. These texts provide us with no value until the day they can be deciphered, unless you count linguistic puzzle-solving as a virtue.


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a2ff6eeb0yesterday at 8:15 PM

> If there exists a text which only one person can understand, that person can communicate their understanding to others, even if that doesn't help them with the original text.

If there exists a text which only an AI can understand, that AI can communicate their key conclusions to others, even if that doesn't help them with the original text.

The only difference here is the amount of meat involved. Perhaps tossing a few steaks on the server racks could help with that.

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