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Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton

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  1. panny · · focus · HN ↗
    A dark age will come. AI shredders destroy all the books then hallucinate what they once contained.
    1. aprilthird2021 · · focus · HN ↗
      I'm the opposite of an AI doomer but this is actually scary to me. Once knowledge is hollowed out like this how can we get it back?
      1. MarkusQ · · focus · HN ↗
        We could go out in the world, have experiences, cogitate upon them, learn to write well, and then do so? It ain't easy, but that's the way it used to be done.
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