Can writers create books, movies, songs and video games at the current pace forever?

[Elfminster]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The answer is never.

Creativity is a divine characteristic written into the human soul.

We were created to create. We always will. Even in heaven (for those that didn't go into the lake of fire) we will be a part of an eternal ongoing creation process.

Even if all the great creators died, their works would live on to inspire, and pure inspiration (though rare) is possible and new works would come about even if all the great ones were lost.

So it's possible to create an unlimited amount of drop dead gorgeous humans each with a unique face?

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Elfminster [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So it's possible to create an unlimited amount of drop dead gorgeous humans each with a unique face?

well, considering in 1 million years, this is likely what a beutiful unique face looks like because of evolution, maybe?

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[Castle2.0]

Originally Posted by Elfminster [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So it's possible to create an unlimited amount of drop dead gorgeous humans each with a unique face?

Tricky question. Define gorgeous. Define unique.

For the time the universe and humanity will last we only need some billions of faces.

If you simply added up the number of facial features and assume each one could have 100 variances of each feature then worked out the math... it'd be yuge.

Color, size of eyes, size of pupils, number of freckles, location of freckles, color of freckles, shape of teeth, size of teeth, whiteness of teeth, etc etc etc.

Let's say you got 100 features and 100 variations of each.

100 ^ 100

I think that's roughly 99,999,999,999,999,996,973,312,221,251,036,165,947 ,450,327,545,502,362,648,241,750,950,346,848,435,5 54,075,534,196,338,404,706,251,868,027,512,415,973 ,882,408,182,135,734,368,278,484,639,385,041,047,2 39,877,871,023,591,066,789,981,811,181,813,306,167 ,128,854,888,448

[Elfminster]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tricky question. Define gorgeous. Define unique.

For the time the universe and humanity will last we only need some billions of faces.

If you simply added up the number of facial features and assume each one could have 100 variances of each feature then worked out the math... it'd be yuge.

Color, size of eyes, size of pupils, number of freckles, location of freckles, color of freckles, shape of teeth, size of teeth, whiteness of teeth, etc etc etc.

Let's say you got 100 features and 100 variations of each.

100 ^ 100

I think that's roughly 99,999,999,999,999,996,973,312,221,251,036,165,947 ,450,327,545,502,362,648,241,750,950,346,848,435,5 54,075,534,196,338,404,706,251,868,027,512,415,973 ,882,408,182,135,734,368,278,484,639,385,041,047,2 39,877,871,023,591,066,789,981,811,181,813,306,167 ,128,854,888,448

How many unique personalities with unique faces/voices/styles can you create before you start creating clones?

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Elfminster [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How many unique personalities with unique faces/voices/styles can you create before you start creating clones?

Unlimited until we disappear.

[Elfminster]

How many slices of cake can you make from one beautiful delicious cake?

So far the answers in this thread have been:

"define beautiful"

"define delicious"

"99,999,999,999,999,996,973,312,221,251,036,165,94 7 ,450,327,545,502,362,648,241,750,950,346,848,435,5 54,075,534,196,338,404,706,251,868,027,512,415,973 ,882,408,182,135,734,368,278,484,639,385,041,047,2 39,877,871,023,591,066,789,981,811,181,813,306,167 ,128,854,888,448 slices"

"an infinite of slices".

I guess it's up to the cake maker to decide how many slices of his cake there should be. Every slice created means less cake for somebody else and if you're just gonna throw the slice of cake at others it's a wasted gift especially when cakes don't grow on trees. If the cake maker can create one cake then he can create two cakes but unless the cake maker puts effort into making the cake it's not a cake worth eating and who wants to make a cake just for you to waste it by throwing it to the fucking ground?

[Castle2.0]

Originally Posted by Elfminster [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How many unique personalities with unique faces/voices/styles can you create before you start creating clones?

Define clone. If you could provide a numerical range for each trait and a total number of traits, I could do the math for you =P

[Elfminster]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Define clone. If you could provide a numerical range for each trait and a total number of traits, I could do the math for you =P

Well imagine there's a world with just 1 person in it.

Just 1.

And this person is you.

And you want some best friends to play with because you're bored and lonely.

There's two options available to you...

a) clone yourself so everybody looks, dresses, and acts identical to you.

or

b) subdivide yourself and give every subdivision of yourself a unique look and name to go with their unique piece of you. The closer you are to your subdivions the happier you all are and the further away you are the sadder you all are. When you're subdivions are happy you're happy when you're subdivions are sad you're sad and vice versa. This option also has technology that allows everybody to change the way they look and in this world you're the king and everybody knows it and is happy it's you.

Which would you choose out of the two optioons and how many of each clones/subdivisions could/would you make?

[Elfminster]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Define clone. If you could provide a numerical range for each trait and a total number of traits, I could do the math for you =P

So you're not interested in my first scenario. What about this one then.

Let's stick with women and let's use Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in their primes as the standard. Obviously if you were to use Marilyn Monroe and the ugliest woman on earth you could make a lot more women but let's keep the quality as high as possible.

How many more unique looking women of that quality could you create before you ran out of options and they started become samey? Reusing hair colour and eye colour etc is okay but their faces must be clearly different to everybody.

Is it possible to create an infinite amount of unique looking women of that standard?

If not then you can't with movies and songs either unless you lower quality, make minor changes, or start replicating them.