Does it actually contain the fact that a 42 year old white female lives at 1234 2nd st, or just an algorithm that can produce a result that coincides exactly with reality for that specific example?
I have bookmarked one of the pages that was generated by the library of babel algorithm. none of that text is stored on the server, it just generates data based on the selected variables... (a bookmark is shorter than telling you how to navigate to the location of that specific page of text, but the page was already there at that location before I went and searched for it)
Yeah, that specific algorithm kind of demonstrates how complicated these things can get... is possession of the algorithm illegal in countries that ban certain forms of speech?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
