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A monkey with keyboard already wrote Shakespeare, duh. Other monkeys called it Shakespeare.
by soco 2y ago
A monkey with keyboard already wrote Shakespeare, duh. Other monkeys called it Shakespeare.
- vardump 2y agoI somehow doubt Shakespeare had access to a typewriter...
- bluGill 2y agoSomeone really needs to go dig up his bones and give him a typewriter. Too bad Halloween was yesterday. \s
- 082349872349872 2y agopedantry: that monkey was ~250 years before keyboards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Hansen_Writing_Ball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Hansen_Writing_Ball
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- hugh-avherald 2y agoHurdy gurdys with keyboards have been around long before then.
- 082349872349872 2y agoIf you try to write Shakespeare with hurdy-gurdy keys, you're going to get slightly abridged versions, like that famous tragedy A ad Ceaa, or the comedy Ced f E. Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxfOZH8cew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxfOZH8cew
- Aerroon 2y agoIn other words: it's "easier" to make better monkeys than to scale up to produce something valuable. Or in other other words: random generation is highly unlikely to produce something valuable. Or in other other other words: the amount of useful information in "the library of babel" is miniscule compared to noise.
- mmoskal 2y agoIn other words the only way we know of how significant complexity arises in the universe is (ultimately) through evolution.
- WesolyKubeczek 2y agoApes, thank you very much.
- tessellated 2y agoOok!
- tmtvl 2y agoDid anyone get the number of that donkey cart?
- TeaBrain 2y agoApes aren't monkeys.
- _blk 2y agoIndeed - that fact was already established 17 years ago ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--szrOHtR6U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--szrOHtR6U