Lessons On Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Via Gutenberg’s Intelligent Replication Of Manuscripts

Dimitris Vayenas
Dialogue & Discourse
5 min readMar 25, 2023

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The Bible’s layout adheres to the Golden Ratio (φ) — 8:5 is a good approximation to 1.618

I am taken aback by the unexpected popularity of an anthology of quotes from Cunk on Earth, which I shared here.

As research on Gutenberg and the Printing Press means a lot to me, a kind of guilt crept in… “What if all those people who laughed with Philomena took her words literally?”

Why the Printing Press is of such importance to us today?

The Printing Press was the first true one-to-many communication medium. Elizabeth Eisenstein, who dedicated her life to writing, “The Printing Press as an Agent of Change” admits the inherent inability to fully appreciate the impact of the Printing Press.

Nearly 30 years ago, James A. Dewar at the RAND Corporation utilized the paradigm of the impact of the One-to-many communication medium in order to “predict’ the future/impact of the first many-to-many communication medium: the World Wide Web. By reading his thesis you may agree that he is by far the most…

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Dimitris Vayenas
Dialogue & Discourse

Ageing researcher of Theoretical Computer Science trying to model & quantify opacity based at Exeter College, Oxford