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May. 15th, 2026 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsDuring the first class of the MIT course on History of China the professor says that it's humanly impossible to learn the entire history of China (see below).
By contrast, we could feed all available texts on history of China to an LLM and it would _learn_ much more than humanly possible. Is this a meaningful change when it comes knowing history? Clearly, having an LLM that _learned_ all math or physics makes sense. Does the same apply to history or art?
By contrast, we could feed all available texts on history of China to an LLM and it would _learn_ much more than humanly possible. Is this a meaningful change when it comes knowing history? Clearly, having an LLM that _learned_ all math or physics makes sense. Does the same apply to history or art?
