*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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Roger schank, Tell Me a Story - great cog sci/AI book from the early 90s
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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
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there seem to be 2 different versions on Amazon, 1991 and 1995 with a coauthor. Which one?
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I have the 1991 one I think, but I believe I have looked at the 1995 text and almost identical
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like could only find electronic versions of 1995 one and passages I wanted to quote were identical
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