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Entropic HalfBakery

 Mirror HB and pour errors on it
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This site would mirror the halfbakery but add random misspellings, swap arbitrary words, and commit other such mayhem a little at a time. There would be a button each user could press to unentropize. Mayhem rate would increase as a function of time passed since the last time the button was pressed. When rendered totally illegible it could be reset to a precise mirror.
—Voice, May 30 2011

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       Isn't committing arbitrary (intellectual) mayhem one of the primary purposes of the HB already? [+]
—Alterother, May 30 2011
   

       This mirror site could be useful for all number of sites.
—bungston, May 31 2011
   

       I someone think implemented has already this on site
—goff, May 31 2011
   

       //Mayhem rate would increase as a function of time passed since the last time the button was pressed.// And all of a sardine, an emergent property would emerge...that decreases the entropy of the system. Unfortunately, that's what emergent properties do, universally...
—4whom, May 31 2011
   

       //When rendered totally illegible it could be reset to a precise mirror.// (of the original) which in itself, and by definition, would be illegible, unless we are not talking true entropy, and rather - encoding. Entropy operates both backwards in time and forwards in time.
—4whom, May 31 2011
   

       The entropic halfbakery would be like the thousand monkeys. Eventually, it would produce good ideas.
—mouseposture, Jun 01 2011
   

       //Eventually, it would produce good ideas// [Marked-for-tagline]
—theircompetitor, Jun 01 2011
   

       A sort of Browser "hall of mirrors"?! Cool!   

       Sounds like a Browser pluggin, to me. Something that references The Wayback Machine's copy of any site you browse to, reflects the "saved" text WRT it's recorded history (in some seeded / repeadedly "random" way, such that over time it changes as decribed above - i.e. the revert button simply displays the current / recent history view) .
—Dub, Jun 01 2011
   


 

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