Part II · Chapter 20
20. Tables as two-dimensional knowledge
Major question
How can you share with AI the knowledge on which your chain of thought relies?
Description
Once the chain of thought has ordered your steps, the table is the most common form for sharing with AI the knowledge those steps will rely on. You no longer give only instructions: you provide an inspectable knowledge base that the model can traverse.
[Attach the table to the prompt].
On the basis of the attached table, analyse the economic value of beauty in tourism by following these steps strictly: 1) Specify the central hypothesis; 2) Conduct a literature review; 3) Synthesise the arguments for; 4) Synthesise the arguments against; 5) Write a 3,000-character article, based only on relationships and arguments that can be reasonably defended.
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Expected impact
You no longer provide steps alone: you also share the knowledge base on which they run. The model must work inside the table - compare, cross, complete - before drafting.
Structure of thought -> knowledge in a table -> traversal -> paper.