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Very accurate. We now have this magic technology that can duplicate books we had no problem lending for free when we were physically constrained. Now that we’ve advanced, we still use archaic constructs to artificially limit information.

It’s a sad state.

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"One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue"

1958 Stanislaw Ulam wrote (in reference to a conversation with John von Neumann)

We have a magic technology that duplicates books, but we don't yet have one that writes books. At least not ones worth reading.

Maybe LLMs will eventually make the profession of writing obsolete. We'd make books too cheap to meter.

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