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As valuable as Gold is, there is a precious metal that is not only inherently valuable as the most conductive singular natural-form material in existence, it is also an antibiotic - Silver.
Major cyber attack could cost the world $3.5 trillion
https://www.reuters.com/business/major-cyber-attack-could-co...
"The global interconnectedness of cyber means it is too substantial a risk for one sector to face alone and therefore we must continue to share knowledge, expertise and innovative ideas across government, industry and the insurance market to ensure we build society’s resilience against the potential scale of this risk,” Lloyd's chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown said.
References:
(Direct quote) How Gold Is Used In Aerospace: Gold Plating In Satellites https://www.valencesurfacetech.com/the-news/gold-plating-in-...
Biodegradable Gold Nanoclusters with Improved Excretion Due to pH-Triggered Hydrophobic-to-Hydrophilic Transition https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b13813
Gold nanoparticles: Synthesis properties and applications https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S101836472...
I think you are misusing this phrase. Gold has the second best electrical conductance, is virtually indestructible, highly biodegradable, a superb heat conductor, and almost impervious to the effects of water, air, and oxygen.
This is why it is heavily used in the aerospace industry and is vital to the exploration of Space.
I'll emphasize a prior point for clarity. Gold Can’t Be Destroyed, only Dissolved.
1. Foundational - Able to bedrock any other knowledge
2. Comprehensive Civilization - Cover continuation of current society, rebuild info,
3. Comprehensive - Cover continuation of current civilization, rebuilding of civ, Cybersecurity Offensive and Defensive.
4. Extinction Insurance - A savings account for Human Knowledge, a survival toolkit, safe haven, Re-Human Seed File.
It would probably be determined by the process taken as something like this has never been attempted to my knowledge. As a Software Engineer I would Plan A for 4, have a dedicated team for 1 finishing early, to carry that team over and use that knowledge to aim for 3, in which case 2 might be the result.
Arxiv for sure. That was the first place I went, however no ability to download the entire database and scraping it would be a project on its own. It begs the question how can we as a civilization "own" our own data and not "rent" it through a website or paywall?
Which brings me to LexisNexus. That is a knowledge store we should all be able to access, crucial information about how the world works! It's only available for Governments and Law Firms...
In my hypothetical the Stackoverflow suggestion is on-point and would also be invaluable right in line with your AI strategem. We'd need some way to categorize, and order all that information to make it applicable would be the challenge I would think. Further, using your game theory of AI, it would need to also be in defense computer system ingestible maybe in real-time, so it would not be available/discoverable/decipherable/hackable up until the moment the data needed to be used. Some kind of OCR oracle for paper to digital "process" for AI defense.
I'm still following your breadcrumbs, I could say more!
Your LLaMa2 suggestion was very thought provoking and meritorious, there might be some path forward with something like that, even if for some neutral knowledge steward AI to be the Interface of the Database.
AIDBI?
I should give this topic some time to brew an answer, but at some point we ought to ask ourselves, why don't we have such a thing?
If we were to construct this database, should it not be on the level of the Human Genome Project, but open sourced? Should it not be more fundamental to have this easily transmitted database, maybe even Unified Design, than Defense Budgets and the Billions that must've gone into the Antarctic GitHub vault? Ideally, the platform of world-wide human ownership of this project should have been initialized and set up for us to complete by, like, I dunno the U.N. or like funded by all Governments and Corporations as a good faith initiative?
Tangentially, let's also suppose that we are not alone in the Cosmos is probable enough to merit effort to enter the next phase of simply sending a Clarke-like DNA/Planet position plaque? Should we not prove our evolution and broadcast this supposed database into space in a loop? The Ascension Beacon?
The excellent comment @speedghost got me thinking about the human interface with AI from a different perspective. Why is the AI public focus on language models, but not knowledge models, how to think about thinking. Is that not "the trick"? Could Humanity not use this itself to better learn to learn? How to categorize, or order, knowledge about knowledge (metadata) is "thetadata" (thinking data)?
Thoughts about a potential Human Knowledge Database. Wikipedia is a mess and is not fit for this purpose in many ways, but the main one is contains sparse info on how to do anything. If the goal is to make the database the most efficient (small size) as it can be, and Unified Design, for all Humanity, we might need some kind of new "motion illustration" format that consists of pictures that are flat files but can be post-sequenced, to create a "movie" with the lowest possible file size, and using vector graphics only? Brainstorming.
That makes me think the database should be some sort of flat file database that is also indexed, and that index can be easily Human parsed or DB software parsed. Quite a feat for 100GB. That is not my lane, maybe it already exists.
I'm holding out hoping there is literally one person out there who already has the seed for this, maybe even already has a project going.
There used to be an open source database file around 74-76GB db devs/admins trained on, encyclopedic, it was well known in that crowd. Anyone know what I mean? I know that's not much to go on but I cannot for the life of me remember the name, keywords, or find it on the internet.
Represent HN!
(Offline Webpage Friendly Kiwix format) 102.62 GB uncompressed ZIM file format https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all_maxi.zim
Two problems with Wikipedia 1. It is absolutely full of unnecessary knowledge 2. It contains little knowledge of how to do anything
We'd be in big trouble! All the celebrity bios, corporate history, could probably half that to be essential. That's 50GB left!