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We were there monkeys all along
Submitted 5 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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someguy3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Pretty sure some other money did tho
meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you’re paying, I’ll rewrite it on a typewriter for you.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Someone must have written hamlet on a typewriter at some point
chicagohuman@lemm.ee 5 months ago
One of us even wrote:
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
One of us even wrote this!
HKPiax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The monkeys are really the friends we make along the way
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
As the saying goes
An infinite number of multicellular organisms with an infinite number of writing utensils will eventually reproduce a recognizable literary work
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A more pithier way of putting it is that we are the universe experiencing itself.
ceenote@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We’re apes, not monkeys, though.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
We’re both. Apes are new world monkeys.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
simiiformes / simians
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And you don’t start sentences with capital letters.
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I mean it’s better than capitalizing Random Words because you think it Looks Cool and it will Make America Great Again!
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Or to write some WORDS completely in CAPITAL letters to CREATE disgusting CLICKBAIT titles.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
And you dont start sentences with and!
Unless you really want to!
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No, it’s ok! As long as you end every sentence with an exclamation mark! You can do anything! The only limitation is your imagination!
joyjoy@lemm.ee 5 months ago
A monkey wrote Hamlet. It got mediocre reviews.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It was the BLURST OF TIMES?!?
cosmictrickster@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Unexpected Simpsons reference
GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Didn’t some math nerd prove that they would need more time than exists in the universe to make this happen?
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s been calculated many times, and yes, it would take an absurdly long amount of time, and that’s the point. When dealing with infinities, time is irrelevant, whether you have infinite monkeys or one monkey and infinite time, they will still both do every possible thing a monkey could do.
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Well, they wouldn’t write it instantly - in the best case, they would start writing it instantly, and finish in optimal time. However, it’s possible that no monkey would actually write it on the first try - we’d have to get into some complex predictions on monkey brains and physiology, it’s possible that with their brains and muscle structure they wouldn’t go for the kinds of character sequences to produce Hamlet, perhaps changing up patterns enough to produce something more random only after a certain amount of time.
Depending on how you formulate the experiment, it could be that no monkey could finish it before physiologically having to take a break or something, returning to specific patterns afterwards that would render it impossible for it to finish writing Hamlet, and thus no monkey would ever write Hamlet in a continuous string of characters, from start to end.
But yeah, if we just say they’re typing completely random characters without pause forever, yup, infinity dictates some fraction of monkeys would immediately be on the right track and finish writing as soon as possible, for anything you can think of.
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 5 months ago
100% and you probably know this, so I’m just addin: think of infinity as a sequence of infinite numbers. The number of all the even numbers, that stretch off into infinity, are also infinite. However, that infinite number isn’t as big as regular infinity.
You can have different sizes of infinity because when things get that big, the rules change.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No. They proved it would take a finite number of monkeys longer than there is time in the universe. Not sure what the point of that paper was, since the theory involved an infinite number of monkeys.
spicehoarder@lemm.ee 5 months ago
They obviously weren’t very good at math if it already happened.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Did the monkeys do it? Or Shakespeare?
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not endless, i guarantee it.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ntma@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Shakespeare wasn’t even that good of a writer. There are better writers, more modern ones, like Stephen King and George RR Martin.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Why would people downvote this?
We’re in shitposts. This is pure gold!
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
George “Let’s ignore half of history, take a superficial misrepresentation of the other half, sprinkle some sexual violence and betrayal over it all, then let everyone claim it’s historically accurate” R.R. “The Dothraki were actually fashioned as an amalgam of racist stereotypes I didn’t bother doing even the least bit of research on, but will pretend were an actual historical inspiration” Martin?
Not throwing shade on GoT as a work of fiction, mind, as long as people are aware that it’s solidly in the realm of fiction. Its popularity alone attests to its literary quality. A piece of fiction doesn’t need to be true to reality to be good (that’s the point of fiction, isn’t it?).
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I understand GRRM spawned a thing that got popular, but he is not a writer anyone should emulate. He’s one of the most unprofessional writers ive heard of, and thats been echoed by other well established writers.
Maybe could call it perpetual immaturity.
IkarusHagen2@feddit.org 5 months ago
Yeah, there are some good modern german writers but goethe or lessing are still historical relevant authors. Old authors get read or discussed in school to learn more about the time they lived in
Mexigore@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Am I the only one bothered by the use there instead of their?
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You made me reread the post looking for any there, their, of even they’re.
zebbedi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We were there, monkeys all along. Or we were their monkeys all along. I’m so confused. This sentence makes no sense.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Oh, my God, I was wrong, It was Earth all along!
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
puts wildebeest down
This llama is right!
ftbd@feddit.org 5 months ago
Funny interpretation of the term ‘endless’ you got there
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The premise of the analogy is that the typed characters are random, which is why the animal in it is one that doesn’t understand written English.
OOP doesn’t get it.
cosmictrickster@lemmy.world 5 months ago
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Struck a nerve, huh?
It’s like writing a joke based on the premise that exercise makes you gain weight. It doesn’t, so any joke based on that is going to fall flat, except for people who think it does, lol.
homesnatch@lemm.ee 5 months ago
There is nobody here that doesn’t understand the premise of the original thought… It does not invalidate a joke about evolved monkeys.
Delphia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You must be so fucking fun at parties.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am, because my jokes are actually good, lol.
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
This is shitposts, relax
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not just hamlet but the entire body of works accredited to Shakespeare
DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 months ago
damn, that monkey must be pretty prolific, perhaps even rivaling Shakespeare! Do we know their name?
IkarusHagen2@feddit.org 5 months ago
She was Wouldiwas Shookspeared and she wrote all of shakespears work in a span of one monkey life
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The name of the kid: Shakespeare
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Christopher Marlowe
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
At least one overly-proficient monkey.
Pilon23@feddit.dk 5 months ago
We also drew dickibutt
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Life is amazing
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I thought they were written by a Klingon.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yeah and all by one monkey.