Magibook. - Manmade Horrors Beyond Our Comprehension or Yet More Dumbing Down People

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snowdunes said:
Holy shit! I thought that NoBias (and other softwares adopting similar "features") was a bad enough of a psyop to make people adopt newspeak. This is literally just a straight up ebonic converter.
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Well that's horrifying. AI has now come even for Winston Smith's job. Urgh!
Grub said:
I dunno. I tried reading the Gormenghast books. It wasn't too difficult but holy fuck the language he used in the book made it such a slog to try and read. I don't think making the language easier would make it better though and would probably ruin whatever it is people see in the book to begin with.
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The first two novels of that series were two of my favourite books as a child (the third the author died before completing and it was largely finished up by someone else) and the writing style is a significant part of that. So yes, bastardising the work will certainly harm it for fans like me. And it's a sadly analogous process to what they did to the author himself (doctors lobotomised him).

The Evil Midnight Bomber said:
But can it do Finnegans Wake though?
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Darn it, I meant to write Finnegan's Wake, not Ulysses earlier. I never completed either and have a tendency to confuse them. They're both terrible imo.
 
Overly Serious said:
The first two novels of that series were two of my favourite books as a child (the third the author died before completing and it was largely finished up by someone else) and the writing style is a significant part of that. So yes, bastardising the work will certainly harm it for fans like me. And it's a sadly analogous process to what they did to the author himself (doctors lobotomised him).
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I couldn't handle the dourness of them and the language just really amplifies the dourness.
 
So reading books without simplification-via-AI is now going to be considered intellectual elitism.

Idiocracy was not the future I thought we were headed towards tbh
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
it's that or smoldering ruins
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what can you do when the powers that be just insist on burning everything down

magibook is so stupid because some kid's gonna use it, fuck up an assignment, get a bad mark, and the retarded modern parents will just blame the school for some reason.
 
Alexander Thaut said:
what can you do when the powers that be just insist on burning everything down

magibook is so stupid because some kid's gonna use it, fuck up an assignment, get a bad mark, and the retarded modern parents will just blame the school for some reason.
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I recall in high school teachers would make sure to game the tests to focus on shit that wasn't in the Cliffs Notes or the movie when it was on a book
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
I recall in high school teachers would make sure to game the tests to focus on shit that wasn't in the Cliffs Notes or the movie when it was on a book
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tbh if you went to high school before smartphones were ubiquitous, then you remember a different world. Back before this, we didn't have fucked attention spans. Victim mentality wasn't championed as hard as it is today.

I've had people tell me that their HS English teacher would make them read a book and then be prefacing the politically incorrect language with all sorts of trigger warnings, having had to follow the curriculum of the district. An acquaintance told me the following tidbit of why he doesn't trust niggers.

He'd taught the kids Huckleberry Finn and had been building up to the use of "politically incorrect" language in a historical context. This one time, a pair of sheboons tried to make some retarded recording by chimping out when the guy said Nigger Jim and started screeching about it to the point that security had to be called. They tried to ruin the guy over this, but failed to understand that this was what the district apparently approved and they then started claiming he was totally making moves on them. I don't know why they did this to this poor guy, but I'm assuming they didn't want to do the classwork and kept escalating the situation into something untenable. I'm guessing the other reason may have been because he kept telling them to behave and not disrupt the class. (Why is it always sheboons?)

Anyways, from what he's told me, the girls dropped out and allegedly got involved in some kinda adult video shit.
 
If we're talking dystopias, I always thought Brave New World fits the west more. Where people never grow mentally over 18, having an app for reduced reading comprehension fits it really well.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
If we're talking dystopias, I always thought Brave New World fits the west more. Where people never grow mentally over 18, having an app for reduced reading comprehension fits it really well.
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All the drugs and the numbing, man.
 
It does seem a shame. There are a lot of books with multiple interpretations at. Death of a salesman can be seen as a cautionary tale, a story of redemption or of justice depending on your point of view.

I won't begrudge students using the app though. A lot of high school reading was mindless shit even when I went to school. Imagine it's all tranny tales now.
 
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