july

A question: What is not on the internet?

A surprisingly thought provoking question. One guess as to why ChatGPT was possible is the data around language & how we behave through language was abundant on the internet at time of training

It turns out there's surprisingly a lot that's not on the internet

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What's not on the internet - 
-The truth behind pr and marketing initiatives
-Physiological human events (eating, running, etc)
-Identity of pets
-Police force records
-Pot holes on the road(Indian thing)
-Number of trees

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This is great. let's take the last point for example:

- Number of trees

We are trained to think of this as a static number, or at least static number of trees at some point. Maybe we have data on how many trees in some location existed, or maybe in 2006. But what about global real-time number of trees?

Let me take that one step further - what is not accounted for in economics? Trees - trees have value but we can't put a price on it because we don't have full cost economics.

We have pretty comprehensive satellite imagery - even though much of it is behind a paywall - so we should be able to count them