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> The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is an excellent book. Wait, did you mean The Diamond Age is an excellent book? Or... has someone made/written the book-wi
by Karellen 3y ago
> The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is an excellent book.
Wait, did you mean The Diamond Age is an excellent book? Or... has someone made/written the book-within-the-book into an actual (e-?)book?
- ceejayoz 3y agoThe full title of the book is The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.
- Karellen 3y agoYeah, but if you're referring to a book, it's customary to refer to it by its main title, rather than just its subtitle. Especially when the subtitle is also the name of a different book, even if that book is a fictional book within the book. If I started talking about how great The Modern Prometheus is, people would generally either a) be very confused, or b) think I was a totally pretentious dickwad for not simply calling it Frankenstein.
- suoduandao3 3y agoI guess that's a misunderstanding of protocols on my part, because the subtitle began with 'or', I assumed 'A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer' was an alternate title and an alternate way to refer to it.
- sl-1 3y agoI think it is the subtext of the book: "The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
- exe34 3y agoI kept thinking it should be possible to make something like it back in the day, and now with LLMs and deepfake, it's even closer to reality!
- sigilis 3y agoI’ve seriously toyed with the concept. It may be possible now to get an application like that on a tablet, offloading computation to OpenAI and its ilk, but it wouldn’t be reliable. We’re not good enough at text and image generation to do it autonomously yet. We’re a little better at speech synthesis than Stephenson predicted, but it might still be nice to have a ractor too.