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The Digital Library of Babel (https://libraryofbabel.info/ https://libraryofbabel.info/) was posted here a while ago, which is a tangible way to search through
by prewett 11y ago
The Digital Library of Babel (https://libraryofbabel.info/ https://libraryofbabel.info/) was posted here a while ago, which is a tangible way to search through this space. The library comes from a book by Jorge Luis Borges, which has all possible books, meaningful and not. The people in the book are searching for books with meaning, but the chance of finding one is really small. The digital library lets you do the search electronically. Kind of fun to play around with.
- Nadya 11y agoIt also has a link to the Universal Slideshow. Which let's one browse every image (of a given size) that represents what TeMPOral was talking about. Ever since I discovered that site I've been slightly obsessed with it. In the "This is really interesting" sort of way. It makes one think how everything is noise. We just happen to find meaning in some of it.
- dsmolovich 11y agoIt's funny though as I had a very similar idea some years ago sticking much with virtual machines. I thought that if VM's disk image is just a file represented by sequence of zeroes and ones and what if someone would generate a final number of those images starting from 0...0 to 1...1 and then probe them all on a given emulated hardware what would be a chance to discover some viable/useful software? How would we detect it? How would we know or reverse engineer it to understand what it could be used for and how to use it, interact with it etc.? So I ended up thinking that it would be a project similar to SETI but on a smaller scale (let's say if the image size would be limited to just 1Gb).