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		<title>Denny at 23:39, 19 March 2019</title>
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		<title>Denny at 23:38, 19 March 2019</title>
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		<title>imported&gt;Denny: New page: {{pubdate|12|August|2008}} [http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/Yihong-Ding/ Yihon Ding] has an interesting blogpost taking [http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/quick-thought-of...</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;New page: {{pubdate|12|August|2008}} [http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/Yihong-Ding/ Yihon Ding] has an interesting blogpost taking [http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/quick-thought-of...&lt;/p&gt;
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[http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/Yihong-Ding/ Yihon Ding] has an interesting blogpost taking [http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/quick-thought-of-semantic-web.html analogies to the laws of thermodynamics] and why this means trouble for the Semantic Web.&lt;br /&gt;
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I disagree in one aspect: I think it is possible to invest the amount of human power to the system and to still keep it going. I can't nail it down exactly -- I didn't read &amp;quot;Programming the Universe&amp;quot; yet, so I can't really discuss it, but the feeling goes along the following lines: the value of a network increases superlinearly, if not even quadratic (Metcalfe's Law), whereas the amount of information increases sublinearly (due to redundancies in human knowledge). Or, put it in another way: get more people and Wikipedia or Linux gets better, because they have a constrained scope. The more you constrain the scope the more value is added by more people.&lt;br /&gt;
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This is an oversimplification.&lt;br /&gt;
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