started reading but got hung up on what an "Obsidian Vault" was.
i assumed that it was some sort of abstract though-experiment thing like Searle's "Chinese room", but it turns out that its an actual folder filled with notes.
Hahaha I love that idea. An LLM enters the Obsidian vault and responds to a prompt by following an arcane and elaborate sequence of calculations. Does it really understand?
... the boy-wizard Claude Prompter battled hoards of P-zombies as he descended further into the Obsidian Vault to face his ultimate foe -- Roko's Basilisk.
Obsidian is a personal knowledge management system which is unique in that, yes, it's ultimately just a pile of Markdown files! Obsidian gives you a good UI to interact with it though: obsidian.md