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We were there monkeys all along
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someguy3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Pretty sure some other money did tho
meliaesc@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If you’re paying, I’ll rewrite it on a typewriter for you.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Someone must have written hamlet on a typewriter at some point
chicagohuman@lemm.ee 3 days ago
One of us even wrote:
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
One of us even wrote this!
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 days 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 2 days ago
A more pithier way of putting it is that we are the universe experiencing itself.
HKPiax@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The monkeys are really the friends we make along the way
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And you don’t start sentences with capital letters.
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 3 days 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 3 days ago
Or to write some WORDS completely in CAPITAL letters to CREATE disgusting CLICKBAIT titles.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
And you dont start sentences with and!
Unless you really want to!
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 days 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!
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We’re apes, not monkeys, though.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
We’re both. Apes are new world monkeys.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 days ago
simiiformes / simians
joyjoy@lemm.ee 3 days ago
A monkey wrote Hamlet. It got mediocre reviews.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago
They obviously weren’t very good at math if it already happened.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Did the monkeys do it? Or Shakespeare?
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ntma@lemm.ee 2 days 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 2 days ago
Why would people downvote this?
We’re in shitposts. This is pure gold!
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not endless, i guarantee it.
Mexigore@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Am I the only one bothered by the use there instead of their?
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You made me reread the post looking for any there, their, of even they’re.
ftbd@feddit.org 2 days ago
Funny interpretation of the term ‘endless’ you got there
zebbedi@lemmy.world 2 days 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 3 days ago
Oh, my God, I was wrong, It was Earth all along!
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
puts wildebeest down
This llama is right!
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days ago
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago
You must be so fucking fun at parties.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I am, because my jokes are actually good, lol.
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
This is shitposts, relax
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not just hamlet but the entire body of works accredited to Shakespeare
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 days ago
damn, that monkey must be pretty prolific, perhaps even rivaling Shakespeare! Do we know their name?
IkarusHagen2@feddit.org 3 days ago
She was Wouldiwas Shookspeared and she wrote all of shakespears work in a span of one monkey life
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Christopher Marlowe
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The name of the kid: Shakespeare
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
At least one overly-proficient monkey.
Pilon23@feddit.dk 3 days ago
We also drew dickibutt
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Life is amazing
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I thought they were written by a Klingon.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah and all by one monkey.