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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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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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Hmmm... In that case.. HP 1-7 is half a book I guess 😂 Most content save for dictionaries Can be compressed if I am to think along those lines.