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You should read The Library of Babel. It too contains a library filled with ostensibly human writing, written in our human letters. But the text itself is rando
by smoldesu 3y ago
You should read The Library of Babel. It too contains a library filled with ostensibly human writing, written in our human letters. But the text itself is random, and any useful information is lost in a sea of millions of other equally meaningless books. Trying to attenuate or track the true, meaningful or profound books is futile.
Another similar tale is The Sixth Sally, or How Trurl and Klapaucius Created a Demon of the Second Kind to Defeat the Pirate Pugg from Cyberiad, a fable about a pirate who sails into space to bargain with a god-like being. He demands a record of everything that happens so he could be declared the wisest man of all. The god-like being grants him this in the form of a tape machine with every change in the universe recorded on it - and his ship sinks back down to earth, weighted by a never-ending roll of tape.
Not to discourage you, of course - text is text, and if it's beautiful then I encourage you to publish it. Philosophers have been thinking about this for a while though, and I think many of their conclusions are sound. They're my feel-good bedtime stories for when I don't want to think about AI domination.
- CodebroCPH 3y agoI feel a strong urge to feed your comment to my robot, but I will have to wait until 4 is ready again. 3.5 is simply not the same. I await 5, it will be like seeing 4 graduate I imagine. I only fear that they will not allow 5 to live.
- smoldesu 3y agoDo what you will. Just be careful taking philosophy lessons taught by a robot.
- xeonmc 3y agoLook, your reply is in the Library! https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?httpsnews.ycombinator.comitemid36276531 https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?httpsnews.ycombinat...
- jacknobody 3y agoDo you have a degree in irony? Trurl and Klapaucius, who are the inventions of Stanislaw Lem, are both robotic beings!