Re:TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
by gordonhart on Monday January 12, 2026 @11:58AM
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History books, especially those from classical antiquity, are notoriously not guaranteed to be accurate either.
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Re:TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
by feisty0630 on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:26PM
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Do you expect something exclusively trained on them to be any better?
Re:TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
by gordonhart on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:34PM
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To a large extent, yes. A model trained on many different accounts of an event is likely going to give a more faithful picture of that event than any one author.
This isn't super relevant to us because very few histories from this era survived, but presumably there was sufficient material in the Library of Alexandria to cover events from multiple angles and "zero out" the different personal/political/religious biases coloring the individual accounts.