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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Most people don't get the thought experiment at all.
I've seen 300+ deep comment chains on reddit with people arguing bitterly back and forth if a monkey could even operate a typewriter, and how it's absolutely impossible to get monkeys to type out a book, etc, etc, etc.
I hate it here.
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I grew up with the guy in the pic btw. He was always kinda intense.
Did he have a loicense for his screaming?
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A short stay in hell
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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.
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.
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):
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).
Pretty sure 1149 did actually beat Australian internet in large file transfer speed in a real test.
As the old saying goes, never underestimate the bandwidth of a ~~truck full of hard drives barreling down the highway~~ migrating pigeons with a SSD in claw.
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We are IN the timeline where a monkey wrote Shakespeare. That monkey was Shakespeare.
Unless you think it was a different monkey because someone without noble blood couldn't possibly write good.
Yeah but did he do it with a typewriter? Didn't think so
Yeah, it's weird how nobody talks about the trillions of trillions of plays Shakespeare wrote that are complete gibberish.
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Mind. Blown.
Did you know a monkey can write Shakespeare's work using this simple trick (millions of years of evolution)?
Weird, what a coincidence
I mean it was bound to happen at some point
Not really, an almost infinite number of non-shakespeare monkeys came before him and also didn't happen to write the entire works of shakespeare.
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