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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace: Discussion and reinterpretation by AI

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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace:  Discussion and reinterpretation by AI

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We will start with a brief summary of the book, followed by discussion (reading the book is not required; just share your thoughts). We can use the excellent storyboards provided in https://www.infinite-jest-storyboards.com/storyboards

After our discussion we will hand the microphone over to HAL9000 and see it's perspective on the book both by text reinterpretation (GTP-4/5) and by rendering images of the text (midjourney). HAL does best with very complex texts, and infinite jest is a about as complex as it gets.

we can then compare our impressions with that of HAL.
HAL is very much like the infinite jest machine described in the book.
Lets see what happens when it has to look at itself in the mirror.

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