: Re: What does/would it mean to code a novel? I have a few interests, and among them belong fiction, math and computer science, and so naturally I like to imagine/think about the possibility of

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A novel is usually a story of people trying to solve problems in their lives. Writing a computer program that could realistically describe people who have problems and what they do to solve it seems to me like an “AI-complete” problem—a computer that can do that would be a human-equivalent intellect in its own right.

(I suppose you could compose a story of a polyamorous community whose characters’ quest for the ideal arrangement of partners is isomorphic to the four-color map theorem, and then come up with a scheme for translating a proof of that theorem into a novel. That would be... an interesting intellectual exercise, but I’m not sure it would be a book to take to the beach.)

A more intriguing—and potentially soluble—question would be: what new apps would make it easier to write novels?

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