[ExI] highly abridged version of dickens carol

[Adrian Tymes]

Rich man dies, recalling happy days in his poor childhood.  Everyone around
him only knew him when he was rich and has no idea his dying word
referenced his sled.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:50 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> "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?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 10:33 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My apologies, but this cartoon made me laugh out loud and wet my
>>>> diapers:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For instance: Bad guy escapes, turns good, Les Constables spends years
>>>> tracking bad guy, eventually catches Les Ass but lets him go.  Ends well.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Answer: Les Miserables
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> spike
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