According to the video, there's this website called The Library of Babel. (https://libraryofbabel.info/),
wherein if you enter any up to 3200-character combination of text
(which is composed of the alphabet in lowercase, comma, space and
period), the exact permutation will definitely be found.
Technically,
this "blurs the line between invention and discovery" because everything
is already predetermined. In fact, this very post (excluding other
excluded characters) can be found there. How is this possible?
This is not something like "the computer detects what you enter in the
search box and then generates something from it". No. The computer uses
seed numbers from base-10 and converts them into base-29 and generates
every possible combination based on it.
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