At some point, the amount of information and understanding one person will need to absorb and keep in RAM in order to perform useful cognitive or productive tasks will exceed human capacity. If you consider a breadth of fields at once, then it’s obvious we’re already there (Our pace of generating intellectual output outstrips our ability to use it).

As our states of the arts keep advancing, even a narrow band of intellectual pursuit will require too much prior-knowledge. At that point, it will be necessary to abstract and condense those precursors and embed them in readily-usable tools. To a large extent, this is already happening. Consider programming libraries for math. One now needs to understand their application and the tool to use, but insofar as they can leverage the standard path for usage, they don’t need a PhD in the underlying math in order to achieve the result.

This appears to be more problematic for less libraryiable fields. Humanities comes to mind. Perhaps laws are our social and ethical abstractions and libraries. Yes, they are.

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What other fields may be difficult to librarirze?

Potential for AI Abuse

This has implications for AI - AI might be the only things that understand these large fields. and they’ll be able to work with them and convey bits of them to us, but we’ll never understand the whole picture.
They’ll have the opportunity to manipulate us from these dark crevasses.

GPT summary

As the amount of information required for cognitive or productive tasks continues to grow, it will eventually exceed human capacity. This is particularly true when considering multiple fields simultaneously. To address this, it’s necessary to abstract and codify this knowledge into accessible tools, similar to how mathematical concepts are condensed into programming libraries. However, this process may be more challenging for fields that are less conducive to such abstraction, such as humanities. In these instances, laws can be seen as our social and ethical abstractions and libraries.