[ExI] highly abridged version of dickens carol

Darin Sunley dsunley at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 19:48:42 UTC 2023


"Your uncle killed me. Kill him!"
"I dunno if I really want to!"
Then everyone dies.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 10:54 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Nice.
> So now I can claim I've read Moby Dick and Les Miserables right?
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> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 10:33 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> Big white whale plus OCD equals tragedy.
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>> 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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>>> spike
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