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christmas

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1.67 million days of XMAS

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Idea for an AI-generated version of the “days of XMAS" song.

On the drive to my parents, I wondered: if we used generative AI to create a “Twelve Days of XMAS” radio station that ran all year, uninterrupted, how many days of Christmas would there be? If you don’t know the song, it has a loop where it adds +1 and introduces an object (ie: 9 ladies dancing), before it counts backwards (8 maids-a-milking, 7 swans a-swimming, 6 geese a-laying, etc.). AI could just count upwards, endlessly, and make up objects as it goes.

Apparently, there would 167,167,000 days of Christmas generated in 1 calendar year, or 457k years (the length from the Late Paleolithic Transition until now). I did not check the math.