[arketyp]

The argument seems to be based on the premise that books are picked up at random from the pool of all books in the world. (As if what constitutes a book is even well defined to begin with.) But his encounter with The Book of the Dead wasn't random. It's a classic. Such a renowned book in fact, filtered by time and intellects, that it could be found even in the library of a small Christian town in Ohio.

[jzebedee]

It's a time investment for everyone involved to sift through enough cruft for these classics to surface. Generating orders of magnitude more of increasingly plausible cruft means that the human arbiters can spend a much greater time investment attempting to surface nuggets of human wisdom that simply aren't present. How do classics appear out of that environment?