A twist on various favorite author/book prompt games is to assume good compression and summarization. Example if you had 100 standard-sized books (and 1 book = 20 good Wikipedia glosses), how much would you allocate to actual books? Respond with glimpses of your compressions.
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Glimpses of mine:
- HHG down to 1 volume
- Shakespeare = 1 volume of quotes
- All philosophy = 1 summary volume
- Top 3 Christie mysteries, uncompressed
- Most social/cultural/humanities theorizing summarized at “mostly harmless” level
- 50 books worth of Wikipedia summaries
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This game is probably too complex to play on Twitter
The Compressed Knapsack problem
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Nice thing about this game is it goes beyond pure signaling and forces you to think a bit past include/exclude
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Isn't this counterintuitive to the existence of material as recreational content?
Doesn't it reduce their existence to being sheer tools used as a means to an end that is not frivolous in nature?
Rhetorically assuming of course, that frivolity is a virtue.
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No, probably all theology down to a single Wikipedia article
hitchhikers guide
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