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Darwinian Poetry: From Bad to Verse
For those who say design cannot take place through the process of selection, behold:
Darwinian Poetry.
Cull the prosaic or nonsensical snippets of text, reinforce the rest, and, slowly... genius? Guess we'll find out. Yes, the poems actually
have sex.
Having sex? And this is posted to slashdot? I doubt many readers here will have experience in this area.
bananas like monkeys.
Looks like machines have replaced all poets by 2003. They can spew meaningless junk that noone wants to read with the best of them.
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
Many /. readers are already sick of hearing about other people having sex. Now our only refuge is mocking us, rubbing our face in it, cause even poems have sex! Am I not prettier than a poem? I guess not.
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
Only on Slashdot Read of poems having sex While still I get none
The front page is still functioning, but the applet is down for the count.
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
"It was the best of times... It was the BLURST OF TIMES?!?! Stupid monkey!"
By process of natural selection, we have just eliminated the weaker servers by use of what ecologists call "The Slashdot Effect." Appearantly, only the stronger servers such as the mighty Google can produce further page views.
> Another advantage is that no teacher could ever ask; What was the authors motivation in writing this particular poem?
Yeah, but I bet I could have written an essay that answered it!
Everything I know about bullshitting I learned in English class. I once got an A on a pop quiz essay about a poem I hadn't even read; I just extrapolated from the title.
If they taught more literature classes in business school then those MBAs would be a lot better at explaining their scandals away, and maybe not get carted of to jail for their crooked dealing. To say nothing of politicians; those guys should be English majors instead of lawyers.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
can anyone tell me the Prose and Cons of Darwinian Poetry? :P
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and then produce another generation of monkeys until we have enough monkeys to create the greatest poem in history
I'll bet that "have sex" link on the right side will be seeing some action...
"In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user. You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total.loser." -Weird Al
O freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me...
All I have to do is try to try to post something, anything and I'm fucked. Is that the same as sex?
In all likelihood they will both be abysmal pieces of nonsensical garbage. That's ok. All you have to do is read them both and pick the one you find more appealing, for whatever reason. Your decision might be based on a single word that you happen to like. It doesn't matter. Just pick whichever one strikes your fancy.
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I like it!
Could somebody please add this to the
Oh, wait...
TC - My Photos..
Your's not to make reply,
Your's not to reason why,
Your's but to crash and die:
Into the valley of delete
Rode the six hundred submissions.
Alas, poor server! I knew him, Mutantninja: a CPU
of Intelish host, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne clients on his backbone a thousand times; and now, how
abused on my internet it is!
I don't know about the rest of you, but i just clicked on "have sex" straightaway. I don't even know what the article is about yet, I just opened it in a new Safari tab to type this while it loaded.
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
... and I was studying to be a poet, driven by dreams of fame and fortune. "Learn Meter", my teacher told me, "understand the rhythm of the soul", he repeated as he hit me over the knuckles with a 2 by 4 when I miscounted my syllables. And now, after ten long years of poet school, I find that I have been replaced by a machine! Not any machine, even, but a mere Pentium 600!
Perhaps one day we will be able to meet, my machine opponent and I, for a final match. Yes, the machine has sex, and I have not, but I have drugs, and that is a lot. The crowd will decide: is poetry the expression of my purely human soul, or just (as I always suspected before my teacher beat the idea out of me) a jumble of pretty words?
Ceci n'est pas une signature
There's no way 'evolution' can form a poem, from the looks of it.
#4808 though eyes closed
helmets stood not
That has to be the best one.
I'm sure plenty of people here can relate.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
in the colos of the night,
What immortal ping of DDOS
could crash thy fearful RAID array?
A happy Vogon, am I. Sorry, Blake.
Money for nothing, pix for free
now that it's been /.ed, i'll bet we will slightly skew the results for the "good" words and "bad" words.
i can see it now.
"We have noticed a 400% increase in the number of poems created including penguins and oddly enough, the letter 'C'".
Absurd! It's an obvious fact that these poems were intelligently created! They even violate the seventh law of ther-moo-dinamiks!
can't be much worse than goth poetry.
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.
-- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2
Goddamned right. Nearly 10 years later, I'm still proud of my top score on the AP English exam...obtained by writing essentially the same essay for all three topics. I wrote three body paragraphs ranting on Judas' betrayal of Christ, then wrote a custom introduction and conclusion paragraph for each topic to twist the given topic to match my bullshit.
Are you trying to tell us that mitosis is a violation of the DMCA, but meiosis isn't?
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.