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When people stop treating LLMs as magic and start thinking of them as lossy information retrieval tools, then it'll be worth it.
Nothing wrong with making the massive amounts of theory we have collectively produced more easily accessible and explorable, but when you offload your material analysis to a text generator you're bound to make grotesque mistakes.
Though I would've be much happier with that effort being put into making marxists.org more accessible instead, reducing the dependence on external search engines.
^this. Very much this (well for westerners anyway)
Good point! Thanks for sharing it.
https://github.com/percy-raskova/marxists.org-rag-db
one step ahead of you
Nice!
This looks awesome (starred)!
Could I ask what did you have to self-teach to be able to build/code that? I am a layman when it comes to this; looking to expand my skillset over the next few years (though I may not be able to do what you just did I would like to work towards it).