New concept 'bitistics': the study of non-human authored literature
Sauers_ · x · 2026-08-15
Tweet introduces 'bitistic literature' as any work of nonhuman origin, where the real author is not a human (though a human may be indirectly the author by performing functions that generated the real author's acts of creation). The discipline studying such writing is 'bitistics'.
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