26-05-2026, 04:37 PM
(26-05-2026, 04:06 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Each response restates the same objection in a different form: "why doesn't mutation X produce word Y?" And each time, the answer is the same: because the scribe is a human making contingent choices, not an algorithm with uniform transition probabilities.
So you are saying that the scribe is not doing copy-and-mutate, nor choosing the prefix and suffix independently of each other, but is choosing each word with a frequency that depends idiosyncratically on the whole word? So that it may often use "otam", "otol", and "tol", but never "tam"?
That sounds pretty much like the process of writing a meaningful text...
And what about the "seed text" objection?
All the best, --stolfi


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