Library of Babel

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• detritus0

  The point is, even if you are somehow able to filter an infinity of possibilities down to some flavour of sense, how do you then resolve that "E = mc³" is wrong?

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  There's a good episode of In Our Time from 2003 about infinity:

  http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/media…

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/…

  Worth a listen!
  

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  • I'm not 100% sure here, but I think a computer program could test if E=mc³ is wrong.
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  • But, I hear what you're saying. The software is the difficult part. How do you extract useful data? It's difficult.
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  • Aye, sorry, it was a very poor example, but easier to illustrate than a "99% correct Hamlet" or whatever.
    
    But yes, your second note is exactly the crux.detritus
  • "To be or, actually, fuckit"—Hamletdetritus

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