In Support of Guido Pérez's Suggestion

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I think we have been a bit hasty in dismissing his effort as 'slop'.

What he seems to be saying is that if each paragraph were to be on a uniform topic then there would be similarity in the words, that you would see certain words not randomly used throughout the manuscript but closely congregated in places, and this would be apparent if you were to do a statistical comparison of successive lines. But his analysis seems not to show this. His conviction: "we would expect a higher overlap in function words or core thematic vocabulary", "VMS text behaves as if there was a 'reset' at almost every line break", "lines are very independent".

I cannot believe that any AI program can ever be clever enough to initiate such an effort and find ways to do the statistical analysis.

I would very much like to see some more on this idea. It might turn out to be significant.

I would like to encourage Guido to continue with his idea, but perhaps to present it in a different way.