2024-04-05

Attendees: Alex, John, LaCroix, Nancy, Robert, Henry, Sergei, Larry, Manon, Tim

Summary

Alex

• Asked for feedback on Collection of notes about information: 3.26.24 - 3.30.24 and What is organize?.
• Discussion about IBG and the difference between information retrieval and information organization
• Mentioned that a information retrieval / creating a search engine is difficult to compete in because the ideal tool should be able to retrieve information from anywhere on the world wide web instead be limited to a smaller database. The big opportunity is organizing information into a decentralized network of directories.
• Mentioned that IBG not using technology beyond HTML is an advantage for simplicity and adoption.
• Mentioned that IBG and other information templates could spread on the internet in a similar way to how meme photo templates have spread on the internet.
• John mentioned Zettelkasten as an alternative to IBG, but I believe that IBG has an advantage because it is simpler and doesn't not require additional technology.
• John mentioned using LLMs to create IBG posts, but I said I wouldn't want to do that because I only want to make posts that have personal meaning to me (artistic reason). I could add unlimited IBG posts using LLMs to my blog and this would crowd out the human created posts that reflect how I personally want to organize information.
• I didn't mention this in the meeting, but I believe that IBG (or another standard method of displaying on a information on a webpage) could do for KSF what wiki's did for Wikipedia because IBG has a low barrier to entry. It is easier to make a list of information than to write / research an article.