[ExI] highly abridged version of dickens carol

[Kelly Anderson]

The Grapes of Wrath...

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 4:29 PM Gregory Jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Everything sucked.  So they moved to California.  Then everything sucked
> worse than before.  spike
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 3:26 PM Gregory Jones <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>
>> Citizen Kane.  Too many clues Adrian.
>>
>> (8-D
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 1:56 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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