I need an "Every possible comment by Hacker News users"
http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
I really miss this project. It's AI replaceable of course but I'm not sure a computer can pull of the such withering personal attacks.
All possible plots by major authors (2020)
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#93Someone do Michael Moorcock.
due to my being saddled with the British National debt it turns out that a loner of a dying race must set out on a morally ambiguous journey through all reality, killing everyone he meets except for a thinly disguised Sancho Panza - Volumes 1 through 119.
accurate
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Humanity would be a pretty bland experience if everybody universally read the same toplist of influences. Some may aspire to study The Classics at Oxford, but to me that sounds like a nightmare of deprivation. Accordingly I see your balanced, partial foray into those classics as a positive. It shows you're an individual bespoke personality with broader influences. We won't know which of the modern works we read are f…
I would argue that a shared corpus that everyone has read is a key foundation to a society with rich and nuanced social intercourse. That doesn't mean everyone has read the same books, but there would be significant benefits in kids coming out of high school or college having all read 50 or 100 of the same great books (plus anything else they wanted to read). I've had the pleasure of listening in on some discussions…
The reality is that the average high school student will not have truly read 50-100 novels, and the opportunity cost of doing so would be substantial for the diverse aptitudes that comprise the entire youth population.
I believe my life has been richer and more joyful for having had some companions whose minor concessions to the fiction reading hobby in childhood leant more towards Asterix and Obelix than to Charles Dickens; I'm certainly not getting "second best" from them in either company or conversation!
Nonetheless I take your point about the potential benefits of shared corpus, despite contending that the extreme of One Universal Prescription also brings the potential downsides inherent to any artificial scope constraint. Diversity and balance of focus are important too.
Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)
#95I need an "Every possible comment by Hacker News users"
title: foo
comment: an essayesque rant about deeply held ideological beliefs that are not even vaguely related to foo
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Brendan Eich: you take a week-long swing at a problem your employer finds commercially compelling. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by the prior art it was supposed to build on. Pretty brilliant, right? Right?
Please forgive my JavaScript joke: it’s really just a poorly-written series of callbacks.
It wasn't that great, but some of the callbacks had promises...
Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)
#97I need an "Every possible comment by Hacker News users"
Your comment does not have a license and even if it did I highly disagree with your interpretation of how it can be both available to all of humanity forever free of all obligation but also I disagree with your monetization scheme, also my partner and I on one of our many hobby vacations have long ago created the solution that sadly was lost to imposter syndrome and inappropriate recycling.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
The above was written by hand. As an experiment, I asked Claude to generate a few dozen more. Most weren't great. Here are the highlights: Michael Crichton: You're a brilliant scientist who's just created something that will revolutionize the world. Congratulations! It's now trying to eat you. Michael Crichton: You've stumbled upon a conspiracy involving [insert scientific field]. Now you're being chased by [insert g…
'I decided to imitate this outburst of human creativity with AI. Wow!' is a great way to stop getting invited to parties (with humans).
In their defense, I appreciate that they actually tagged it as AI. A lot of people would be tempted to post them without attribution, especially given that tagging it is a great way to get dumped on.
Even more so, they provide commentary at the bottom on the weaknesses of the model, which is useful!
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#99I want an author who's work is completely unidentifiable from one release to the next. Or to find a dozen authors who have inconceivably and independently created identical manuscripts. Surely if there were a library with all possible books, we would find one of those two things...
> Or to find a dozen authors who have inconceivably and independently created identical manuscripts.
So, kind of like, or so it is said, the septaguint?
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#100Or mix together your own plot, by combining any of the tropes in the "Periodic Table of Storytelling": https://jamesharris.design/periodic/
TV Tropes had something similar.