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We're all struggling to adapt rules meant for humans and books, to robots and limitless search engines. Humans read one story at a time and imperfectly remembe

We're all struggling to adapt rules meant for humans and books, to robots and limitless search engines. Humans read one story at a time and imperfectly remember it; robots can read millions and remember them all. Books contain static prose; online texts can change and adapt and be rewritten. What is a 'reader'? What is a 'book'? What is 'one copy'? Who owns exactly what? It'll take some time to settle on something. In the mean time expect lots of these articles arguing around words they don't define exactly, making similes that don't hold much water.

shagie 3y ago
> ... Books contain static prose ... Very tangential, this reminded me of a puzzle that has been very rarely solved. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/literary-puzzle-solved-for-just-third-time-in-almost-100-years-cains-jawbone https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/literary-puzzl... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29972370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29972370 ) ... and apparently another run of the loose leaf edition is to be published soon.