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Now to literally set this into motion and create movies which don't exist and claim copyright on those movies. Keep it up long[0] enough and produce a movie whi
by malnourish 6y ago
Now to literally set this into motion and create movies which don't exist and claim copyright on those movies. Keep it up long[0] enough and produce a movie which _will_ exist or _does_ exist.
Substitute movie with your choice of medium.
[0]: Longer than that, even
- esquivalience 6y ago"Creating movies which don't exist" is the same as "creating movies".
- unreal37 6y agoInfinite monkeys on infinite typewriters can produce a work of Shakespeare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem Or infinite AI creating infinite movies can create Avatar.
- zingplex 6y agoI remember there being an archive that indexed a random stream of numbers from which you could download a range of random bytes, the idea being theoretically everything can be found within the dataset. I think it was done in protest of copyright or something like that. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.
- smusamashah 6y agoLibrary of babel?
- thricegr8 6y agoYep - Vsauce has a nice video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bbInWfAgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bbInWfAgA
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoDo monkeys really produce an uniform distribution of keystrokes? Humans don't, and they're also primates.
- marapuru 6y agoNice one, reminds me of L-Space in the Discworld books. "Additionally, one can read any book ever written, any book that will be written at some point and books that were planned for writing that were not, as well as any book that could possibly be written." [0] [0]: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/L-space https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/L-space