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FBL93: Angus Fletcher - Why Storytelling Will Prevent AI Dominance

The Singularity Discussion Series

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Wonderworks - The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

In your book Wonderworks you explore the 25 most powerful inventions in the history of literature. The earliest effective literature is to create wonder there's a sense of awe by very simple little device which is known as the stretch. A much more recent invention would be detective fiction and detective fiction is great at training scientists because what happens in detective fiction is you get a few kind of random pieces of information you start to make guesses and then you see are my guesses correct.

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