Comment by bvisness
3 years ago
“We don’t need to make knowledge individually accessible and maintainable”, followed _immediately_ by “humans are actually really good at preserving knowledge”. Who do you think does the preservation? How do you think preservation works?
Communities, ie. "humans" collectively, not individuals.
The point is that making knowledge easy to access and maintain for an individual makes communal action easier.
And my point was that the scenario of one person needing to transmit knowledge to a single other person over fast stretches of time does not properly characterize any problem people actually face. Engineering your solution for that constraint might still be useful for real scenarios, but it's hardly likely to be optimal and very unlikely to be what people actually use.