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You remind me of the space pirate Pugg, as encountered in the sixth sally of Trurl and Klapaucius as described in The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem.

That is to say, however much you pre-sort your data, there will still be a virtual infinity of them still left, all abiding your pre-set conditions, but all still uninteresting.

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Can't a human draw a picture of Usain Bolt in the Greek Olympics? Wouldn't such a criticism also apply to human art?

I don’t understand you. The amount of human art, or indeed the possible maximum number possible of human artistic expressions (from the beginning of time until the end of the universe), is, I believe, far smaller than the pictures you would have left after your sorting filter.

I don't understand you either.

I don't know what you mean by a 'sorting filter', but what I'm talking about is an algorithm that takes >40Mb of data as input (pictures of Bolt and Athens for example) and uses this data to output ~40Mb of Bolt in Athens.

I mean human artists to be an analogy: humans can 'select' a picture of Athens Bolt without enumerating all others. I don't see why computers couldn't.

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