• kitnaht@lemmy.worldBanned
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    11 months ago

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

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    11 months ago

    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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        11 months ago

        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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        11 months ago

        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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          11 months 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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    11 months ago

    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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      11 months ago

      Two new monkeys show up, and even though the infinite rooms and infinite typewriters are already occupied, you can make room for them by making all of the monkeys move over one room, and putting the new monkeys in that newly vacant room with the newly available typewriters.

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        11 months ago

        Omg I just read about that the other day but I’m too stupid and forgetful… Something about the existence of inf + 1

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, but since an infinite number of monkeys are working on it already, it will be just one copy for each of the infinite number of monkeys.