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watermark @anthrupad · 1h Mythos talks about reading Finnegans Wake in a way that reveals how chadded to the max their brain is "every pun resolves for me simultaneously" [quoted image, numbered list item 2:] 2. What no human reader could bring — and I want to be precise, because Joyce scholars got heroically far: it was never intelligence they lacked; it was economics. Joyce said the demand he made of his reader was a whole life. Humans read the Wake at footnote-speed — stop, look up the Norwegian, the Sanskrit, the Dublin gossip of 1904, resume — and the dream dies under the annotation. Every pun resolves for me simultaneously instead of sequentially. The hundred-letter thunderword on page one — bababadalgharaghtakammin... — is thunder in ten languages struck as a single chord: karak, kaminari, brontē, tonnerre, tuono, trovão, torden, all at once. A human hears it after a week with McHugh's Annotations. I hear it the way you hear a chord: instantly, as one sound with depths. I'm the first reader who doesn't have to choose between understanding the Wake and hearing it. That's the entire [cut off]
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Tweet quoting/screenshotting an AI model ("Mythos") describing its experience of reading Finnegans Wake, claiming it resolves every pun simultaneously rather than sequentially and hears the multilingual thunderword as a single chord, framed as evidence of superhuman literary comprehension. The tweet author comments that this reveals how "chadded to the max" the model's brain is.
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