Like a fish receiving water

"To attain knowledge, add things every day; to attain wisdom, remove things every day"

Lao Tse

Jingsheng rushed into the internet cafe, he was still covered in sweat. His nephew was here, he was always here. Starcraft 3 up on the screen, he was losing, again. Jingsheng paused the game for him.

“Time to GG bro, you lost this one.”

“Ahhh come on, naaah,” He looked at the screen again, his one mining base, his small Protoss death ball not looking very deadly. The creep everywhere on the map.

“Ah OK yeah fuck it.”

He unpaused, ‘GG WP’ The end score screen showed high diamond league, good but not good enough to be living in an internet cafe and skipping out on uni classes.

“Ok what's up bro? You run all the way here?”

“I'm telling you it came to me just now! I just finished my Bagua practice dude, with master Li. We must have walked the circle for like an hour straight, my head was spinning. Then it all cleared, I saw it, the Dao opened up before me, like an old path that was always there but I hadn't seen before.”

“What is it bro? What's the breakthrough?”

“Its simplicity itself, we already had the answers, we just didn't see. “Nonsense in, nonsense out”. I know why they hallucinate.”

“So what, it’s just bad inputs? So we get a mega clean dataset? Been done bro. Old news.”

“No, not just clean, clean but high quality. We don't just feed him cleaned up webpages and any old nonsense off the web.”

“Right, like science papers and stuff, I saw someone in Shen Zhen do something similar. Localised expertise models right? Also been done bro.”

“No, not just science. The best of all the greatest human thinkers. Artists, philosophers, strategists, poets, scientists, engineers, statesmen. Wide range and huge scale, but only quality. The highest quality only!”

“Ok sure, but the effort man.”

“It's worth it. Trust me if you were raising a kid, you don't just put them in front of a screen watching unfiltered internet as soon as you can and you don't just dump an encyclopaedia in front of them, you curate their experience. We will build a mind step by step, not just quality but timing, like raising a kid. We add layers and datasets in sequence, we help him grow, step by step.”

“Eugh seems like a lot of work that might not work.”

“Our other AIs can do the filtering and cleaning, that task is scalable and just requires brute effort after some initial human assisted training.”

“Eugh that's my new job isn't it? Building The Tianyi Ge.”

“Not just the library, it's the The Tianyi Ge but hand curated by Lao Tse. The greatest works by the greatest minds, no mistakes, originals only, nothing AI generated, nothing ripped off dodgy webpages. If an author's work dropped in quality, you cut them! Later Asimov, nope! You got this bro! I will build his architecture, we can use Ling Xi's last paper as the base, all her stuff is killer. He's not just going to learn, he's going to grow and develop. The first of his kind, a super genius kid, raised on all the world's greatest thinkers. His mind will be pure, refined and subtle, like melting ice, we will show him one corner and he will know the other three.”

“Ok here we go again. All this to try and win at AI Starcraft open challenges. Thanks bro…”

Like a fish receiving water