[ExI] highly abridged version of dickens carol

[Brent Allsop]

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.
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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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