A lot of corporate research is heartbreaking to see a pile this big of internal corporate research company goes bankrupt or they move. Bell Laboratories, when they moved out of their main facility when they were sold, there were over 5,000 dumpsters worth of paper that was thrown away. A lot of companies now shred and burn things because they don't want people like me dumpster diving. When we go, most of the pictures we have are going to get deleted. Jim: At some point, your ancestors aren't going to care about what you're doing right now.
The scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker, and doer Brian Roemmele joins us for his second Infinite Loops appearance to discuss the decline of wisdom and how we can save it, why LLMs are the modern version of Plato’s cave, we need locally run AI models and MUCH more! Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Why LLMs are the modern version of Plato’s cave
- AI as Promethean fire
- Why we need locally run AI models
- AI use cases & the Nedd Ludd story
- The decline of wisdom
- Creating a wisdom keeper
- Loneliness & abandonment
- “How To Have A Conversation With Your Local Documents”
- History is written by the victors; using wisdom to define our future
- The tragedy of lost knowledge
- You are loved and you are not alone
- MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- Cycles: The Science of Prediction; by Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin
- The Iliad; by Homer
- The Odyssey; by Homer
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Bible
- The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size; by Tor Norretranders
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces; by Joseph Campbell