We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)
Marginally related (software?) rant: every time I want to learn how something specific works or I want to do something oddly specific I keep running in the same phenomenon. Google mostly returns vague abstract fluff and Stack Overflow tells me it really, really shouldn&#x27;t be done because [reason]. It&#x27;s like most of human written content caps out at about the level of description ChatGPT could deliver. Like there&#x27;s a &quot;knowledge event horizon&quot;.<p>After that it always ends in hard to parse research papers, specifications, jumping around the source code of multiple libraries, debugging or reverse engineering. If I get lucky I might land on a 15 year old blog post that no man has seen since inception and it describes exactly what I wanted to know.<p>And that&#x27;s just software. Humans know exactly what parts went into it and how it works. Why must wisdom always be squeezed out of a rock? Why is only the fluff copied thousands of times making research harder each day? Why are there never indicators which way to dig for more details?<p>T__T