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Elizabeth Lopatto
“That’s it. We’re getting an encyclopedia.”

A remarkable essay on how an AI-generated video on kung fu led one family to order actual, physical encyclopedias.

Knowledge is not a market commodity. Moreover, “justified true belief” does not result from an optimization function. Knowledge may be refined through questioning or falsification, but it does not improve from competition with purposeful nonknowledge. If anything, in the face of nonknowledge, knowledge loses.

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