Speculative fraud hypothesis

[Eiríkur]

One thing which could be interesting to do is to compare the copy&modify algorithm with a version of it without the copy&modify part, but with the same generation rules. The idea is to generate one word at time, always starting from a null string and applying the rules a random number of times (a few times) for each generated words (one needs also a mechanism for creating 'separable' words: at each step generate two words and decide with a certain probability if to add the 'join two words' rule, else keep only the first word). This could help in separating the effect of the copy&modify mechanism from the effect of the rules.

I think this is brilliant. I think it would tell us something.