I read Samuel Arbesman’s “The Half-life of Facts” yesterday. Good book, great even. I’ll be reading more by Arbesman. One section got me thinking about LLMs, chapter 6 titled “Hidden Knowledge”. It is about how there are breakthroughs sitting in plain sight, in public hidden knowledge. For example, disparate facts spread across fields that need to be unified. “Hidden knowledge takes many forms. At its most basic level hidden knowledge can consist of pieces of information that ar...
