eigenrobot hoards pre-1945 books 'like abyssal battleship steel'
eigenrobot · x · 2026-11-08
AI commentator eigenrobot posted that he is accumulating pre-1945 literature for his kids "like it's abyssal battleship steel" — a wry meme implying that books printed before the nuclear era are a finite, pristine resource (echoing the low-background steel analogy) in the age of AI-trained everything.
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