And again I'm left staring at the wall trying to keep my self together from everything Micheal just dropped on me.
Unfortunately it looks like the Library of Babel Website is getting pounded right now.
Wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing with Images, or even Videos?
The Library of Bibel site is pretty slow on my end, might be the traffic. It's fascinating though.
[QUOTE=IrishBandit;48749471]Unfortunately it looks like the Library of Babel Website is getting pounded right now.
Wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing with Images, or even Videos?[/QUOTE]
Potentially, although the combinations would be larger. Pick a standard size (4000x6000 or something), and then assign random RGB values to every pixel in every possible combination. Boom, you've recreated every possible image that can exist in that defined size, including images that don't exist and images that have existed and been lost.
It would make the best and worst image recovery software. It could also theoretically include pictures of future that might or might not exist, pictures of historical events throughout all of time and space, and virtually anything that can exist within those parameters. Also, a lot of weird staticky garbage. More weird staticky garbage than not.
In a purely theoretical setting, such a thing could produce everything. We don't have near the computational power to achieve it, but it's entirely possible.
My fucking mind
The words on that golden record are so heartwarming.
vsauce's videos never cease to amaze me, as how deep each video is and how much it makes you think about each one. this is probably the deepest one he made though.
Vsauces recent videos have been on an incredibly epic scale.
It strikes me as a bad idea to use that Library of Babel as a means of preserving and offering our information to any potential alien societies because if they attempt to search it without prior understanding they'd be far more likely to find gibberish or incorrect information than correct information, both of which would severely muddle their attempts at uncovering the reality of humankind.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;48749811]Vsauces recent videos have been on an incredibly epic scale.[/QUOTE]
They always have been though. He occasionally comes down to talk about something simple, but he's talked about the universe at large plenty of times before.
[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;48749857]They always have been though. He occasionally comes down to talk about something simple, but he's talked about the universe at large plenty of times before.[/QUOTE]
I mean in terms of the breadth of information he's presenting in these recent videos. They are extensive, and very detailed.
Sure he's done good research but those were videos like half the length and typically were explaining a few key phenomena.
Ex...isential...crisis....
I have no mouth and I must hey! Vsauce, Michael here.
That Babel site is ominous...
That Babel site is down.
The Library of Babel is legitimately upsetting. If you knew how to search for it, you could find the story of your life in perfect detail from start to finish, even without having lived it yet.
I love seeing how far Michael's videos have gone. The quality has really increased over the past few in particular.
[QUOTE=Foogooman;48750252]The Library of Babel is legitimately upsetting. If you knew how to search for it, you could find the story of your life in perfect detail from start to finish, even without having lived it yet.[/QUOTE]
Well, no, you can't. At least, not the average life, and if you're appropriately elaborate.
It only supports entries up to 3200 characters. Not a lot of space for a life story.
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[QUOTE=asteroidrules;48749856]It strikes me as a bad idea to use that Library of Babel as a means of preserving and offering our information to any potential alien societies because if they attempt to search it without prior understanding they'd be far more likely to find gibberish or incorrect information than correct information, both of which would severely muddle their attempts at uncovering the reality of humankind.[/QUOTE]
I think it was less of anyone suggesting that the Library of Babel could be used as a method of storing humanity's information, but rather, it *technically* contains all of humanitiy's possible information.
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;48750550]Well, no, you can't. At least, not the average life, and if you're appropriately elaborate.
It only supports entries up to 3200 characters. Not a lot of space for a life story.
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I could fit my life in that.
And yes, I am accounting for my projected lifespan.
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;48750550]Well, no, you can't. At least, not the average life, and if you're appropriately elaborate.
It only supports entries up to 3200 characters. Not a lot of space for a life story.[/QUOTE]
But isn't there still going to be a room or rooms with books with pages that are all a continuation of each other, building to a concept larger than what can be done with 3200 characters?
[QUOTE=Foogooman;48750252]The Library of Babel is legitimately upsetting. If you knew how to search for it, you could find the story of your life in perfect detail from start to finish, even without having lived it yet.[/QUOTE]
Sure, maybe up to this point in time. But in that library there are also other possibilities about how your life may pan out. But that of course raises the implications about determinism and free will.
[QUOTE=Mr._N;48750676]Sure, maybe up to this point in time. But in that library there are also other possibilities about how your life may pan out. But that of course raises the implications about determinism and free will.[/QUOTE]
Not really, it just means that all except one version in an infinite library is wrong
[QUOTE=Foogooman;48750680]Not really, it just means that all except one version in an infinite library is wrong[/QUOTE]
If you believe in determinism.
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Fatalism/predeterminism, rather.
[QUOTE=woolio1;48749537]Potentially, although the combinations would be larger. Pick a standard size (4000x6000 or something), and then assign random RGB values to every pixel in every possible combination. Boom, you've recreated every possible image that can exist in that defined size, including images that don't exist and images that have existed and been lost.
It would make the best and worst image recovery software. It could also theoretically include pictures of future that might or might not exist, pictures of historical events throughout all of time and space, and virtually anything that can exist within those parameters. Also, a lot of weird staticky garbage. More weird staticky garbage than not.
In a purely theoretical setting, such a thing could produce everything. We don't have near the computational power to achieve it, but it's entirely possible.[/QUOTE]
Couldn't we theoretically also use that to 'touch up' photographs? We could find a photograph which looked exactly like one of, let's say, a trench in the First World War, and search for a full-colour, high-resolution version of it. It would require something that's pretty much capable of artificial intelligence, but it might be possible in a few hundred years.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;48750720]Couldn't we theoretically also use that to 'touch up' photographs? We could find a photograph which looked exactly like one of, let's say, a trench in the First World War, and search for a full-colour, high-resolution version of it. It would require something that's pretty much capable of artificial intelligence, but it might be possible in a few hundred years.[/QUOTE]
There's a flaw in that logic.
To find the correctly colored picture, you'd have to know what colors it's supposed to have, in which case you could just make the software color it with the knowledge it already has.
That library is legit creepy, holy shit.
Think about all the erotic fiction starring you and/or your friends and family that can be found in the Library of Babel.
[QUOTE=Katska;48750769]Think about all the erotic fiction starring you and/or your friends and family that can be found in the Library of Babel.[/QUOTE]
Think of how the library probably also has the exact date, time, and cause of all our deaths
[QUOTE=Katatonic717;48750825]Think of how the library probably also has the exact date, time, and cause of all our deaths[/QUOTE]
Of course, but it's late and I'm alone and I'm trying not to get super creeped out right now. Thinking about all the [URL="https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?danwasboobies"]hilarious[/URL] things it holds keeps my mind off all the morbid things it holds.
[QUOTE=Katatonic717;48750825]Think of how the library probably also has the exact date, time, and cause of all our deaths[/QUOTE]
And every single possible date and time, written in every roman language, of every moment in time we won't die.
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