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Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought


Preserving and augmenting human insight in an age of automated knowledge with Zettelgarden

From Socrates worrying that writing would destroy memory, to today's debates about AI-generated content, we've always struggled with how much of our thinking we should outsource to tools. Instead, it's about understanding what made these physical systems work so well and finding new ways to achieve similar benefits in a digital context. Vector search helps narrow things down, but it's prone to missing important connections that a human mind might naturally make.

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