dlthomas comments on Open thread, November 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dlthomas 03 November 2011 04:53:48PM 3 points [-]

Has anyone tried just generating random 100k-character brainfuck programs?

That's an awfully large search space, with highly nonlinear dynamics, a small target, and might still not be enough to encode what we need to encode. I don't see that approach as very likely to work.