15-11-2025, 05:21 PM
There is a family of scenarios where someone provides a straightforward and convincing algorithm that generates large sections of the text in a straightforward way without imbuing it with meaning, and I can imagine computer methods that could recover it.
Two things about this, though. First, it would likely leave some ambiguity, especially if the seeds of the algorithm still held a tantalizing possibility for meaning so I don't know if the question would ever be universally viewed as settled. Second, I think this solution space is small so I mostly agree with the point that we're unlikely to prove the text is meaningless, but I did want to register that I don't think meaninglessness strictly implies insolvability.
Two things about this, though. First, it would likely leave some ambiguity, especially if the seeds of the algorithm still held a tantalizing possibility for meaning so I don't know if the question would ever be universally viewed as settled. Second, I think this solution space is small so I mostly agree with the point that we're unlikely to prove the text is meaningless, but I did want to register that I don't think meaninglessness strictly implies insolvability.