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Unredacted files reveal Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world' (www.thebookseller.com)
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In the filings, Anthropic states, as reported by the Washington Post: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world. We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

https://archive.ph/HiESW

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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Write a book where the spine is a required piece of the story for its understanding or completion.

Kind of like how House of Leaves is best enjoyed with the actual book.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I read one once where being able to slightly see through the pages was a key part of the plot

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Which one, if you can recall? I love interactive books.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It was called 世界でいちばん透きとおった物語 by Hikaru Sugi, but I don’t think there’s an English translation because this kind of gimmick works a lot better in scripts where all characters are the same size, and a translation that ends up with a comparable arrangement of those letters would be a major pain too.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    A slow-burn read by learning Japanese first. This one will take me while.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Fuck yeah, I can already reliably recognise like ⅓ of the hiragana set...if there's a multiple choice pick.

    I'm taking a course, but if you want to just self study www.kanadojo.com is pretty good, and if you get anki there's a load of free resources to practice listening and reading. Anki is free on android and pc, but costs a bit on iOS. Www.Ankiweb.net

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I swore I wouldn't buy another physical book, but I may break it just to be able to read this one.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I love reading actual books. I don't know why you would quit if you can afford it

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I recently had to move with my physical book collection and swore I wouldn't do it again. I converted it all to ebook now. I'm down to about a dozen physical books, not counting comics and TPBs.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    In an effort to fight modern techbros, all modern human writers start churning out Oulipianesque texts, and reading books is cast once again as a passtime for weird (perhaps dangerous) nerds.

    ...actually, there's some half-decent stories you can tell and ideas you can bat around with this frame informing both format and content. The title Samizdat jumps to mind when thinking about some of them (I know there's a contingent on Lemmy who might not be thrilled about the connotations, but it's a good word). Hmm.

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