*falls into a reddit hole* *emerges 3 years later* Turns out we are living in the greatest folklore golden age in our species' history
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Almost entirely located on topical boards where people tell stories about their lives "for true" - r/folklore is boring & dead
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Part of the fun is the negotiation of what people accept as true or deny, what is moved to fiction boards, deleted, praised, derided
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And comments - people responding with stories that show they get the "gist" of the story, Robert Schank's turing test equivalent
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@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 gist2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@vgr thinking about it it's also a sanity test - checking for the extremely complex task of relevance & theory of mind1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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