Ordinary Banana

*falls into a reddit hole* *emerges 3 years later* Turns out we are living in the greatest folklore golden age in our species' history

Almost entirely located on topical boards where people tell stories about their lives "for true" - r/folklore is boring & dead

Part of the fun is the negotiation of what people accept as true or deny, what is moved to fiction boards, deleted, praised, derided

And comments - people responding with stories that show they get the "gist" of the story, Robert Schank's turing test equivalent

@literalbanana what is that?

@vgr Roger schank, Tell Me a Story - great cog sci/AI book from the early 90s

@vgr he posits that the ai-hard thing we do all the time is pull a "gist" from stories and demonstrate it by giving a story with same gist