[Interview] An interview with Stephen Bax

[davidjackson]

One has to study and discern the structure first, and then it might make sense to look for nouns/names or whatever might fit the circumstances. It does no good to look for nouns if the text is a self-replicating system or if it is a numerical system, or steganography, or any other of the dozen ways text might be represented other than in a natural-language substitution mode.

We've been doing that for a century, Jpk. Let's try a different angle and see what comes up. OK, so Stephen hasn't made any public headway on his angle of attack, but that's not to say we should stop.