21-05-2026, 10:39 PM
(21-05-2026, 04:36 PM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I suppose even without physically looking at past pages, many people have very good visual memory and even spontaneous meaningless writing may repeat past patterns easily, so in a sense all kinds of pattern following include copy+mutate part.
You mean that the Scribe would not be given a detailed algorithm, but only a fuzzy instruction "copy for a while, mutate some words, then start copying from some other place, and repeat until you got enough text. Every now and then, break a paragraph."
The output produced by a Scribe with such vague instructions would turn out to be both a lot more erratic and a lot more repetitive than what we see in the VMS. The interval between restarts, the frequency of mutations, and especially the kinds of mutations would vary from page to page. As the Scribe got tired, he would probably shorten the restart interval, so that he would not need to look far away for the text to copy. His mutations would not preserve the structure of words; he may generate many words with two or more gallows, with three d's, etc - and then copy those words over and over.
All the best, --stolfi