[Article] Harvard physicist's take on the VMS

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it's an open forum already crawled/indexed by Google and Exa and most likely therefore part of all frontier models' datasets...  All I've done is specifically add it to a private vector database to make it more easily searchable...

What are you hoping to do that will make your work different from what is already being done?  What are you going to search for that we can't already search for?

This forum is littered with leads and ideas people have posited without having the capacity to fully investigate it. The point would be to just give a hypothetical AI some leads to get started. The key distinction is that this wouldn’t just be the current single user chatGPT.

$20 million in compute is an insane amount, a scale that is hard to comprehend. Many very interesting leads have been found on this forum by looking at other mideval manuscripts, noticing similarities to drawings. D’imperio said she thought there was enough structure to map it to some medieval maniscript.

$20 million is enough for an ai that found those leads to literally meticulously catalogue every drawing in every digitized manuscript and compare all them to Voynich. It’s enough to develop custom medieval handwriting analysis to map writing styles of marginalia on every digitized manuscript. And still have money left over.

The point is most leads discussed on this forum have not been fully investigated due to the raw amount of work it entails, and $20 million in credits is enough to do that. It’s not about the direct solution, it’s about people discussing which leads are mechanically solid and then having it pursue them. Thats how it solved the millennium problem, the approach it used was a preexisting hypothetical angle of atrack, but actually proving it was orders of magnitude more effort.

Edit: just to be clear, I’m not arguing ethics about this, the millennium problem situation was a fiasco because of how uncertain credit for work was assigned. In just describing a hypothetical scenario where current day AI could solve Voynich.