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Wuddabout: Works unfinished at the time of the author's death? Abandoned works? Lost works? Prompt: Aristotle's work on comedy has been lost. Write a short t
by pseingatl 1mo ago
Wuddabout:
Works unfinished at the time of the author's death?
Abandoned works?
Lost works? Prompt: Aristotle's work on comedy has been lost. Write a short treatise on comedy, using Aristotle's methods as shown in his Corpus and especially his treatises on Rhetoric and Poetics.
- tgv 1mo agoWho cares? There probably have been hundreds of such texts by later philosophers and authors. None of these has value as a completion of Aristotle's work. The original's importance is historical, and you can't retrofit history.
- watwut 1mo agoUseless. The work is still lost or abandoned.
- pseingatl 1mo agoI would wager that many people are eager to read George R.R. Martin's latest were he unable to finish it. Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander has featured in works written by others after his death. Why not AI?
- Planktonne 1mo ago1. AI is incapable of doing this well, and that seems unlikely to change. 2. No one who appreciates those books wants this.
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- Planktonne 1mo agoSomething that looks a bit like another thing isn't the same thing. No amount of prompting would get you Aristotle's actual lost work.
- QuadmasterXLII 1mo agoUse a fucking typewriter?
- nitwit005 1mo agoYou can generate 10000 different versions of something that might resemble someone's lost work. It's unlikely anyone will want to read any of them.