because it's a system without a chief, more based on committees than a figurehead

the president is not important.... many Swiss people have trouble remembering who the president happens to be this year.

https://norbu-ai.org/ is an LLM with expertise focused specifically on the Pali Canon. It's supposed to have narrow expertise and be used for a single purpose.

Norbu is useful for searching through the canon and say, "Where does the Buddha talk about alcohol?" "Where does the idea of the seven factors of awakening come from?"

Norbu allows you to get from concepts you've heard about back to primary sources. It does have some advantages over just searching suttacentral.net or accesstoinsight.org: you don't have to know the keywords you're looking for, you can look for things you're only starting to understand when you don't know the jargon.

The works of Marx and Engels are about the same size as the Pali Canon. Imagine a narrowly-expert LLM, a fine-tuned open-source model, and baby leftists asking it things like –

• Where is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall discussed?
• What was Marx's understanding of international trade? (and it wouldn't just tell you what it was but what chapter and verse it's citing)
• Did Marx ever consider there wouldn't be gold-backed money?

and the LLM gives answers grounded in the primary sources.

What do you think of my idea?

Go to the 'Lifestyle' section of a broadsheet and they paint a picture that we are all struggling to deal with stress and overwhelm. This is portrayed as an unavoidable feature of modern life.

A few things make it hard to believe –

• Firstly, it just doesn't square with my daily experiences. I'm not stressed out and overwhelmed, while living a pretty normal lifestyle with full-time work plus childcare and sports etc.
• The stats don't bear it out. Working time has gone way down – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Average_annual_hours_per_worker – it's below 35 hours a week most places, 46.25 in the highest in that table. Yes when I worked 80 hours a week I was exhausted, but that's not the norm, and the papers talk about it like it's some inescapable trend.
• Then there's the stats on TV-watching. How can it be true that modern life is hectic AND people watch telly for three hours a day?

I know this is coming across as a rant diguised as an AskLemmy question, but I have real curiosity about it.... am I the exception for not feeling busy? Is there some explanation I am missing for why people in a society with 35-hour workweeks feel busy? Do you find the 'hectic modern life' narrative relatable? Do you think people are lying about being busy for some reason, e.g. to avoid being asked to do things?