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IIRC the LOC has a copy of every book published in the US... I need to re-verify that, but I believe that was one of the info bits I gathered from my last visit. I don't retain knowledge very well when I glean it whilst gaping at architecture.
It's never going to be all knowledge, since a lot of stuff is just lost or never recorded. A ton of stuff (like this thread) are probably low on the priority list for recording as well. But the closest you'd probably get to a full catalog of human knowledge (at last text based) are the huge data sets of nearly all text data on the internet used for training LLMs. I wouldn't be surprised if there are ones soon that include video and pictures as well, since newer AI models are starting to be able to interpret those too.
I believe this is one of those data sets: https://github.com/yaodongC/awesome-instruction-dataset
Edit: here's a big data set used for a lot of gpt3 https://commoncrawl.org/
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https://www.historyingranite.org/
While its not all of Human knowledge it's a very important part of it, our history.
Ultimately if the goal is for it to survive societal collapse to the point where knowledge gets lost then books are a better bet than any digital storage. As such most large libraries hold the knowledge needed to take us up to the industrial revolution at least. Semiconductors is hard to teach in only text, by that point you really need the ability to produce the machines needed etc. But the underlying theory will be in a library. Also a lot gets proprietary and trade secrets when we get within the last 30 years and that knowledge won't ever get written down in a central repository until it's aged out of being protected.
Knowledge is not what make people distroy this planet though, or what helps against it. We know enough already
read the query again
I read it, what I meant is: is knowledge the thing that makes our society nice? Or would it lead to the same shit we have right now, if its not accompanied by something else?