Curiosities

Strange, fascinating, and mind‑bending corners of the internet.

INFORMATION & COMPLEXITY

• The Library of Babel Made Real (Library)
  Every possible page of text already exists in this algorithmic library. Your thoughts, written exactly as you’re thinking them right now, are already there—you just need to find the right address.
• The Voynich Manuscript’s Statistical Signature (Manuscript)
  Follows Zipf’s law like natural language but resists decipherment; a statistical mystery.
• The Longest Poem in the World (Art)
  A generative poem built from every tweet; an extreme example of algorithmic literature.

PHYSICS & DECISION THEORY

• Quantum Immortality and the Anthropic Shadow (Physics)
  If many‑worlds is true, observers experience only branches where they survive — with interesting anthropic implications.
• Roko’s Basilisk and Decision Theory (Decision Theory)
  An information hazard thought experiment mixing acausal trade and Pascal‑like reasoning.