On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:24:05PM -0500, Richard Loosemore wrote:

> For each literary work n in N, use G to generate a universe u, and
> within that universe, inject a copy of the literary work at a random
> point in the spacetime of u. Measure the reaction, in terms of critical
> acclaim generated by the work in any species who happen to be hanging 

I realize that this is sarcasm, but detecting the mere presence
of a species (nevermind their critical acclaim) from a trajectory,
then rather give me the infinite simians, and I will personally look
for Shakespeare sonnets in them.

> around the injection point (critical acclaim = number of times the work 
> is described in the language of that species as a "literary 

Ah, now you want to extract language, too. 

> masterpiece", summed over the entire history of that universe). Compute 
> the critical acclaim density (using a measure theory of your choice) as 
> the injection point is varied randomly in an infinite set of universes.

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