People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".
Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.
In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.
@tomw The monkeys at the typewriters will EVENTUALLY write the works of Shakespeare.
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Yeah, maybe these monkeys, now made virtual, will finish Hamlet at last and start writing War and Peace… or something 🤭
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