When an error goes from too inconsequential to revered "stone"...
And I try to reflect on so many different things of, like, I've seen this happen in TV shows, movies and books where an author or a writer will stick in an error that can slip under the radar, but the purpose is to facilitate moving the plot along. Drives me nuts. But this isn't one of those, because you could very easily fix it without it affecting anything
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 0:25
You. I would guess that plot errors are probably very common. And I'm just thrilled to find out that this book was actually written by human being. If there were no errors, maybe we couldn't prove whether an AI had written it or a human had written it. But now I'm convinced a human wrote it, and to me, that's good news
Oh, yeah. Plot errors. Find them all the time. This one surprised me, though. More so because it's been around for so long and it could have been addressed. But then, of course, having the further thoughts can understand why it wasn't
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 0:13
You. Perhaps it just wasn't an error that was noticed. Maybe you're the first one to notice it. I mean, I don't know how likely that is, but it's possible it
Statistically, I find that really, really hard to believe. I mean, the book's been around for 56 years, and not to mention how many people have read it, let alone reread it. I could imagine that maybe not many people cared enough to comment, let alone to put that comment publicly, but I suspect there are probably plenty of people that have seen it
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 1:52
Hi, Christina. Well, the blade Runner, I don't think I've ever seen that, but I do have. Do androids dream of electric sheep? It was a gift to me from my husband a few years back. And I read the book, and I'm thinking about rereading it
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 0:18
Hey, Erica and Christina. Now I'm really fascinated. I want to go back and watch the movie again. It's been many years since I've seen the film, and I wonder whether this error got into the film or whether it was fixed in the film or whether it's even in the film at all
Yeah, it's interesting which things might make good movies and which ones might not. I'm currently watching a series on Amazon called Beacon 23 and it's by an author that I enjoy, and yet it's got like a rating of five point, something out of ten on IMDb, and yet there's like more there than in a lot of TV shows these days. So I don't know. I didn't read the book yet, so I'm doing this in reverse
And so that would be an important piece. I wonder if, I mean, sometimes scenes from books never even make it into a movie. And then sometimes scenes are in movies that were never in a book. So I don't know. It'll be interesting. But I am torn on whether I even want to see the movie or not. Maybe I'll know better when I'm done
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 3:26
Hey, Christina, you know, I've come across this as well. I've come across this in terms of these type of errors you have described in books and books that have transitioned into movies. I have seen it in other types, in forms of media. And you read it or either hear it, and it's like, you know that's incorrect, right?
Another thought I had was, if we start moving forward through time and we're having more and more AI involved in the processes of creating things, is this something that we're going to lean more into of that error shows that a human did it, and that's something like a fingerprint, and that's something that we want to make sure is included. And if that's the case, then you could almost get AI to incorporate intentionally mistakes, right?
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 4:33
One theory is, yeah, it's a mistake, but even if someone noticed it, they would leave it, because this is a part of the work of art. It's a part of. Yeah, maybe, as Hersisu was saying, the humanity of this artwork. I have another theory, though, and I don't think we'll ever know the truth
There was something about him that came across as curmudgeon, but he was also always smiling, and he also seemed really smart. Anyway, I digress. Those errors of the water level and the cigar, they almost seem like a given, or that you, to eliminate them, seems wrong in a way, just because it's like, to some extent, the nature of time, of things happening, like of physics, you know what I mean?