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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You may’ve heard of the https://libraryofbabel.info/ which uses the same concept to hold every book that ever has been or ever will be written

Edit: library of babel has made the exact image generator you’re talking about! https://babelia.libraryofbabel.info/

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I sincerely hate these, not because they’re doing anything wrong, but because they always have the exact thing I put in. So somewhere in the library is a complete description of exactly how I die and when it happens. I didn’t know there was an image generator too, so now they have a picture of me dying as well.

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I think library of babel is kinda bs though. It’s not actually what it’s supposed to be.

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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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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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:ortega-clap:

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

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easier to handle the whole image as one large binary number and just start counting up

randomized algorithms would take longer to hit every value

unless you want to use it for divination 🔮

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brute forcing all of information, ever

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also brute forcing all false information for a laugh

see: library of babel

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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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auto drawing :grillman:

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