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Post by recursive » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 8:21 PM UTC

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #44

recursive wrote: post #10

I don't understand why so many people seem so fascinated by constructions like the library of Babel. Yes it contains the answers to all your questions, but there are some significant drawbacks. * It has more wrong information than right information, with no way to tell the difference. * If you had an oracle that could tell you how to get to the book you need, the navigation instructions to get to the book will be at…

> If you had an oracle that could tell you how to get to the book you need, the navigation instructions to get to the book will be at least as long as the book, on average. This isn't quite true. Natural language text compresses extremely well and you would only need length equivalent to the compressed form, not the original form. And if you wanted to go further, you could use a mapping where extremely short strings…

Post by saghm » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 8:23 PM UTC

matheusmoreira wrote: post #47

bonoboTP wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I mean exactly this type of insight. Basically taking a digital photo with a camera technically also just picks out the "address" of your current environment within the space of all images. Any 4K 2-hour-length feature film in a digital format is also just an address in the space of all possible videos. The director, the actors, the whole crew did all that work in order to select that point from the space of pos…

Yeah I agree with you. > It's like the idea that the sculptor doesn't create the sculpture, the sculpture was there all along, he just had to remove the superfluous matter to reveal what was already there (i.e. the atoms belonging to the final sculpture). I understand this argument but I have far more trouble applying this logic to real things. I'm not sure the same logic applies once the information is instantiated…

Post by avidiax » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 8:27 PM UTC

aspenmayer wrote: post #5

avidiax wrote: post #2

> Many crawlers and indexers continuously pick random or sequential infohashes and announce themselves so they can later detect other announcers I can't follow the logic here. How does this detect other announcers?

The way I understand it, these extraneous infohashes are functional honeytokens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeytoken > In the field of computer security, honeytokens are honeypots that are not computer systems. Their value lies not in their use, but in their abuse.

Post by zikduruqe » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 8:32 PM UTC

tdjsnelling wrote: post #29

freetonik wrote: post #18

Love this idea of generating pages based on some strictly defined enumeration. Reminds me of https://everyuuid.com/

Me too. That's listed as an inspiration on the index page!

Post by BobbyTables2 » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 8:39 PM UTC

matheusmoreira wrote: post #47

bonoboTP wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I mean exactly this type of insight. Basically taking a digital photo with a camera technically also just picks out the "address" of your current environment within the space of all images. Any 4K 2-hour-length feature film in a digital format is also just an address in the space of all possible videos. The director, the actors, the whole crew did all that work in order to select that point from the space of pos…

Yeah I agree with you. > It's like the idea that the sculptor doesn't create the sculpture, the sculpture was there all along, he just had to remove the superfluous matter to reveal what was already there (i.e. the atoms belonging to the final sculpture). I understand this argument but I have far more trouble applying this logic to real things. I'm not sure the same logic applies once the information is instantiated…