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In how far is the success of Amazon(I suppose that success is what you mean by 'the fact of Amazon') to be associated with intelligence? Might there be some su
by kkleindev 9y ago
In how far is the success of Amazon(I suppose that success is what you mean by 'the fact of Amazon') to be associated with intelligence? Might there be some survivorship bias or halo effect at work? Nassim Taleb writes that if you place a sufficiently large number of monkeys in front of typewriters, one will end up writing the Iliad.
- scandox 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem Taleb does not get the credit for that!
- kkleindev 9y agoThanks for letting me know!
- ellius 9y agoI love the response quote, “Now, thanks to the internet, we know that is not true.”