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Answer Questions never been answered before (probably because they have never been asked)

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Ask anything you would consider too vague or too stupid. It is not supposed to be very refined or thought through, it can as well be a string of random symbols, just tell us how to read them. Consider it a very serious questions community, where questions most definitely are not serious, or the other way round. WE APPRECIATE ABSURDISM. WE APPRECIATE CREATIVITY. WE THRIVE ON ANSWERING GENUINE CURIOSITY!

These could be questions which you think a 5 year or 10 year old would ask, but you are not 5/10 year old and you don't have anybody to ask.

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A brand new sentence is a sentence which we consider to have never been spoken or written, or thought of (at least the ones which are not recorded). And just swapping a noun with another noun (for example a name of a place or person) while may techinically be considered new sentence, it is not really matching the spirit of brand new sentence.

for the linguists, can you try to come up with a better estimate (better than just coming up (all the words)^(to the power average sentence length)). Maybe by using the description of using different forms of verbs (like we consider in NLP) (verbs which take DP, CP), then adding standard adjectives and finish with remaining grammar (sorry if I am getting it all wrong, it has been a while since I took my intro to linguistics class). Also, consider a morpheme less form. This exercise is for a more realistic guess.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's 8 billion of us, I would guess it's pretty high.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 1 points 2 days ago

but about a third are almost always sleeping, many are not able to speak/think (baby and really very old folks). Many are school going, where they largely discusing the same stuff for years. Many just have stopped thinking. If the odds of one person to come up with a brand new sentence is x, then final result is probably x^(a billion or so), instead of x^(8 billion). Extremely high, but could be higher, if we all just get commited

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I asked ChatGPT and the answer is "The female swam away exhausted and a little rattled."

[–] sga@lemmings.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I said, I ASKED CHATGPT AND THE ANSWER IS "THE FEMALE SWAM AWAY EXHAUSTED AND A LITTLE RATTLED."

[–] sga@lemmings.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)