Library of Babel
Library of Babel
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- sarahfailin0
Somewhere in that library is a truthful explanation of how to achieve faster than light travel (if it's even possible). However, there are also billions of false explanations of how to achieve faster than light travel.
"the trick to faster than light travel is to simply scenographic discolors outlasting gighe floatiest slappers zootherapies systematizers scouting agroterrorism"
with the severely improbable likelihood of discovering any new information in this system, you really can't gather any information unless you already know it. unless you get REALLY fucking lucky.
- How exactly would you get really lucky and "discover new information" in this?Sep
- Without altering the definition of the word information, that is.Sep
- With this much information, there is no chance of getting "lucky" to find info.********
- The easy part is building this library. The (insanely) difficult part is writing software that can extract useful data.********
- Again, how and when would any data out of that library be "useful"? By what definition? To what standards?Sep
- It's like looking at the alphabet, thinking: "Somewhere in there is the secret to time-travel."Sep
- i would guess that it is so unlikely as to be impossible to get new information out of this library, but i wouldn't know how to prove that mathematically.sarahfailin
- you might as well put a bunch of random elements in a blender and expect a light-speed engine to come out.sarahfailin