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by tempfile 313 days ago
This take is very naive and should anticipate the obvious criticism: people did try, very very hard, to create structured information systems. They simply did not work. The sort of systems people tend to build are well-scoped for a particular problem, but fall apart completely when moving out of that domain. It is very easy to imagine an information system that results in correct answering of flag questions. It is a wide open problem to come up with a way of tagging information that works well for flag questions and for questions about memes, or art. It's not like Google didn't try!