[ExI] highly abridged version of dickens carol

[Kelly Anderson]

Big white whale plus OCD equals tragedy.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 9:49 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> My apologies, but this cartoon made me laugh out loud and wet my diapers:
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> We know of Readers Digest abridged versions of books, and movies are
> always abridged versions of the books from which they are derived.  So now,
> if we have AI to assist in the effort, how much can a story be abridged and
> still be recognizable?  If we allow illustrations as above, can we reduce a
> novel to six words?  Can we imagine a contest, a literature version of Name
> That Tune, where we try to describe a classic literature title in as few
> words as possible to see if our teammates can guess the story.
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> For instance: Bad guy escapes, turns good, Les Constables spends years
> tracking bad guy, eventually catches Les Ass but lets him go.  Ends well.
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> Answer: Les Miserables
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