[mikewarot]

The root cause of this is that HTML is not a language for the markup of hypertext.

Because everything has to be copied and/or compressed into a single layer document along with its markup, you almost never see actual markup in the web, just a lot of formatting and layout.

Because you can't have multiple markup of a given source material, adding multiple hierarchies doesn't happen. Any given information structure is necessarily oversimplified and thus only fit for limited use.

It's almost as if someone read Vannevar Bush's description of the memex and decided to actively prevent its reification.

He said the organization of knowledge was the largest challenge facing mankind post war. Clearly he was right, and we've failed miserably.

The thing LLMs provide is an impedance match between the data we do have, and the actual needs of mankind.