think about it. auto drawing, hell, auto writing since it includes pictures of books.

monkeys and typewriters but there’s a script to teach the monkeys how to interact with the typewriter

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Not necessarily - random doesn’t mean every result, it means it could be every result. It could just alternate white and black pixels in a line forever and that would still be within the bounds of randomness.

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Felt very :le-pol-face: writing this comment

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nah, random exp. = equal probability of all outcomes. any non-zero probability implies some appearance of the outcome in the series of infinite repeats of the experiment. however, if you’re only running the experiment a few times, there’s no way to really say what you’ll get.

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That’s the thing, if there’s an equal probability of all outcomes, then an outcome that doesn’t appear random is as likely to occur as any other.

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I thought you were going to make a connection to NFTs, and I saw a setup to a joke about those hideous apes. Thank you for being better than my blockchain-poisoned brain.

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It makes me uneasy to think we can generate all information that could possibly exist and yet it’s more efficient to create and discover things ourselves rather than search through the pile of everything.

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1x1 is 2^1, which is just 2 (2 possible colors, one square)

2x2 is 2^4, which is 16 (still 2 colors, 4 squares now)

3x3 is 2^9, so its getting big fast at 512 combinations

so 10x10 is 2^100, is 1.2 nonillion (1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205 ,376)

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A canvas with 9 squares is 2^9, or 512 possibilities.

For the sake of simplicity, say a 10x10 canvas with 2 different colour possibilities.

That’s 2^100 which is pretty large (a 31-digit number)

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Yep, for a proof try playing around with small numbers of each (1 square 3 colors == 3^1, n squares 1 color == 1^n, 2 squares 3 colors is 3^2) — it clicked for me when I started thinking of them as binary numbers where each square is a digit

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auto drawing :grillman:

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