>Divided into pages, it is built to produce and locate on demand any 3200 character combination of English letters and the comma, space and period. >Basile has organized it all into hexagon-shaped rooms, each with four walls of books containing five shelves with 32 volumes of four hundred and ten pages each. >Each page is given a unique sequential page number in base 10. The text on each page is encased inside this number. >An algorithm Basile created uses the page number as a seed to generate a unique big number. That output is then converted into base 29 so that it can be represented using every letter in the English alphabet as well as the comma, the space and the period. >Basile has made sure that the algorithm will produce every possible combination and the same page number will create the same output every time. >Which means that what is on each page is already predetermined. >every page already exists. It only needs to be looked up. >The contents of a page can be converted to base 10, sent through the inverted algorithm and turned into the exact page number they're found on. >It's a truly eerie experience, because you can find the permanent location for any 3200 character text. >You can find in this library the description of your birth, every possible description of your death, every poem, every joke, every lie, anything that could be said can be found on this site. >10 to the 5,000 different pages are offered by the Library of Babel. >In comparison, there are only 10 to the 80 atoms in the observable universe.
it's Sup Forums related because it brings up questions about with free will/determinism/history and also legal issues (it contains EVERY possible image that could be made)
you don't read much do you faggot this literature is easily over 80s years old. next you will try convince us that house of leaves is some revelation that we should all read you faggot.
Dominic Howard
>overgrainers colobomas weltanschauungs nonrioting should claimers di gs reduit irradiant starlit becrimed jooks valorise lensed landholders interline ates kludgy flak caisson mashers gannisters democratise misogynic mozzarella fur nitures tsutsugamushis barbastelle spumonis presbytery ossicle labrusca chumming apostilles pseudopodia disbars so, it's a website with 10^5000 pages of random text?
Logan Rodriguez
BORGES O R G E S
Brayden Roberts
The tower of babel was a spaceship that got shot out of the sky and the life pods scattered across the world. So many decades past before they found each other that everyone spoke different languages.
This is stupid because he could just map every English word to a number and reduce his search space. He could have a different library for every language and it would still be smaller.
Kevin Nelson
>Did the page exist before he typed it though? yes >>Basile has made sure that the algorithm will produce every possible combination and the same page number will create the same output every time. >>Which means that what is on each page is already predetermined. >>every page already exists. It only needs to be looked up.
Owen Perry
Wow. He invented a compression algorithm. That has literally never been done before.
Bentley Campbell
It's pretty interesting. Has nothing to do with determinism really, it's not of philosophical importance because, while containing all information about the past and future it's impossible to tell what is correct.
It's sort of like saying 'when i flip this two sided coin, it will land on one of the two sides, therefore i know the future'
Oliver Bennett
It's literally just a compression algorithm. Except that it's useless in all other scenarios that don't involve compressing a random string of 3200 characters in base29
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Benjamin Smith
Old as shit user.
Sebastian Myers
yes
Colton Sanchez
So someone actually made the monkeys try to type Shakespeare?
Caleb Murphy
You know what would be cool? Give the algorithm as many texts that already exist. This books have their original weird code name. Find a pattern or formula that predicts the name of the books that you gave the algorithm and see if it comes with some new intelligible books.
Justin Torres
On one hand it is impressive that he has managed to compress down 10^101 possible permutations into a compact form.
On the other hand it's like I said earlier. It's basically useless. And useless things tend to have less entropy than useful things.
it's like perpetualmotion fags who put a bicycle wheel with spoke beads on a bearing and then spin it. It will spin forever. Because it's not doing anything useful. There's very few avenues for entropy to take hold.
So to is this "library of babel". There's no real use for the algorithm. That's why it can compress such a huge amount of information into such a compact form. Because it's fucking useless that's why.
Carson Powell
you know it is not real right
Landon Cruz
>If you arrange letters in every possible way the results will include the exact arrangement you have searched for
uhm ok?
Brandon Ramirez
Basicaly this.
Try sharing a link to a page with your information text. It is same length as your information text.
Luke Long
And 99.99999% of it will be fucking gibberish, what's your point?
Christian Powell
God's work, user, god's work
Christopher Rogers
>australia
Nathaniel Kelly
Nonono yall are missing the point
The point of this project is that information and its relations exist independantly of whether or not we hold relation to it.
I.e. the nature of subjectivity and determinism. As in the future exists without us being related to it, and reality exists without us being related to it.
Nathan Morris
Wouldn't you have to believe in a multiverse for that to make sense?
Camden Price
No, the point is that OP is a faggot and anybody who buys his hype is too. First off >muh 10^5000 pages I don't know where the fuck he gets that from. There's 3.9x10^101 possible permutations of both the result and the input required to achieve the desired result.
So it's literally fucking nothing. The number of volumes required to store those permutations would increase and so to would the complexity of the algorithm as you desired to gain more information from the volumes.
It's literally just dehydrated water.
Adam Price
But when I go to read the book the page just contains what I typed and no further information. Imagine my disappointment. I wish there was a next page function so I could keep reading and see what the number were. Anyway this author is probably no better than a room full of monkeys sitting at a typewriter so I wouldn't expect a thrilling ending.
Hunter James
IMAGUN MY SHOK
Nolan Carter
If you think the text one is nuts, go look at the picture one. Fucking scary man.
>donald j trump will be elected president of the united sta tes on november eighth two thousand sixteen bixnood nigger four chan pepe kek
lol wtf
Jaxson Bailey
haha wat
Jeremiah Thomas
No
Dylan Butler
Sp inform me as to how what I said isn't relevant.
Andrew Taylor
Would you look at that
Leo Morales
you are a massive fucking retard and I can prove it. No algorithm can explore the depest recesses of my mind. It is an enigma. The origins of my genius are in a vault no machine has access to- no algorithm can reason!
double nigger shit
Jack Martin
>reality exists without us being related to it Not really. With no observer paeticles do bot have to choose a state.
Schrodiengers cat also says no
Owen Bailey
Why does Schrodinger's cat always find itself in this shit.
Brody Taylor
Fucker can't get a rest. I hope that cat is ok/not ok.
Brandon Ortiz
that reddit shit is the linchpin of the deception on physics.
only the big bang can rival it in pointless bullshit fed to arrogant nigger atheists.
Alexander Martinez
>fireballs nasalizing whillyhawks PROPHETIC!
Owen Davis
For real though, don't you think someone could make an algorithm that goes through the image version and picks out all the "real" pictures? Google and Facebook already have those crazy image recognition algorithms
