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The Knowledge Bottleneck

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Rule systems scaled into expert systems and stalled on authorship: every exception needs a writer, every vocabulary must stay consistent, and the world keeps minting exceptions.

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The 1980s boom built thousand-rule systems; maintenance grew with the square of ambition, and the bust followed.

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Inference was never the hard problem — knowledge acquisition was, and that diagnosis sets up everything after.