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[–] 110 points 1 year ago (10 children)

We are IN the timeline where a monkey wrote Shakespeare. That monkey was Shakespeare.

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    [–] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you have an infinite amount of monkeys and they're all typing truly randomly, then an infinite number of them would get it correct on the first try. Which is sort of weird to think about lol.

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  • [+] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think too many people don't consider the monkey is not supposed to be making decisions, it's just supposed to be inputting anything, literally anything, on a typewriter.

    Like a random value generator, for typewriter keys.

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  • [+] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I mean, if they are actually monkeys who don't know to type, some of them will still press keys once or twice. And if there's infinite monkeys, they will still type it out.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The funny thing is, if you truly have infinite monkeys, it doesn't matter if they're using it correctly or not. There is an infinite amount of them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Some infinities are bigger than others, though.

    Even if you have countably infinite monkeys typing countably infinite strings for an infinite period of time, there will be an infinite number of strings that the monkeys haven't typed, that will never be in the set of completed typed strings.

    Cantor's diagonalization proves it.

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm starting a 2nd order monkey typing business attempting to use a bigger infinity of monkeys to eventually recreate the works of the first set of infinite monkeys.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Since monkeys tend to hit the same keys repeatedly, rather than trying them all out at random, I'd say your second order monkey business is actually more likely to succeed than the first set of monkeys ever typing out Shakespeare is.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I grew up with the guy in the pic btw. He was always kinda intense.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As an IT guy, there will always be a special place in my heart for the awesome person who wrote a protocol suite for this use case (it is a lot of fun to read):

    https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2795.txt

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There are quite a few April Fool RFCs, but this one is definitely one of my favourites. This one and RFC 1149 (A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers).

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I have an infinite number of rooms, so I'm putting two monkeys in each room with two typewriters.

    Now I can do it in half the time.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    892 trillion years sounds like a minuscule amount of time to wait for a string that long.

    Like you already got unbelievably lucky.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But arent there infinite monkeys? You should have already seen it written an infinite amount of times in 892 trillion years

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Perhaps it's in the monkey's psychology that they'd never hit the keys that much before just destroying it all. They're a pretty poor pick for a random value generator.

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  • [+] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The defeater is each key needs to be statistically as likely as any other key to be pressed next, i.e. statistically independent events. For example after a monkey pressed S they are then just as likely to press K as W. If there is any reason they prefer a key or sequence you don't get a normal distribution and they probably will never create any of Shakespeare's works.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    We are the monkeys.

    We wrote it all.

    Even Skibidi toilet.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    That which we call a gyatt by any other name would skibidi rizz just AF. No cap.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We all evolved from monkeys, there have been millions of us, and one of us already wrote the works of Shakespear

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    We are evolved from a common ancestor to all great apes.

    A great ape is not a monkey.

    Don’t belittle your heritage or I’ll be forced to resolve this like our ancestors, by slinging feces at you until you leave.

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