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saying "randomness can't lead to intelligence" is the talking point Given enough time, a monkey randomly typing on a keyboard could hypothetically produce Shak
by jqpabc123 2y ago
saying "randomness can't lead to intelligence" is the talking point
Given enough time, a monkey randomly typing on a keyboard could hypothetically produce Shakespeare.
But talking points aside, this does not make the monkey more "intelligent" nor does it mean that "randomness" is a practical methodology for achieving specific results on a human timescale.
Particularly when the desired result is as complex and poorly understood as "intelligence".
- ben_w 2y agoI'm describing evolution itself as the intelligence here, not the monkey. And the million typewriters taking ages is why Creationists argue it can't work (having not understood half of it). > But talking points aside, this does not make the monkey more "intelligent" nor does it mean that "randomness" is a practical methodology for achieving specific results on a human timescale. Not by itself. Evolution is more than just random, it's a specific filter on top of randomness, just like all the other things. And computers roll the dice very quickly compared to reproduction, which is why neither you nor any other human can win a chess game against the best computer any more — it did it on a human timescale.